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subject:"Inventors" from books.google.com
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs.
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble.
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The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.
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A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
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A biography of the electrical engineer whose inventions included an amplifier, an arc light, transformers, Tesla coils, rotating magnetic field motors for alternating current, and others.
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Wood scrutinizes the less typically American traits possessed by Franklin--such as his longtime loyalty to the Crown--and why he still became one of the Revolution's necessary men.
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The computer engineer details his early life and education, his role as the creator of the first personal computer and co-founder of Apple Computer, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the technology ...