Author: Earl Smith
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781952143021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The genius Thomas Edison once said all anyone needed in order to invent something was a good imagination and a pile of junk. Imagination and creativity have always been essential qualities for survival in Maine and the ingrained habits of "saving up" and "making do" inevitably led to heaps of junk. As a result Maine has produced some extraordinary inventors and inventions with many aimed at a simply making daily life, easier and more comfortable: from Joseph Peavey's self-named tool that dramatically improved log driving to Chester Greenwood's ear muffs to Charles Forster's toothpicks to Hiram Maxim's machine gun to the L.L. Bean Duck Boot.
Maine Inventors
Author: Earl Smith
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781952143021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The genius Thomas Edison once said all anyone needed in order to invent something was a good imagination and a pile of junk. Imagination and creativity have always been essential qualities for survival in Maine and the ingrained habits of "saving up" and "making do" inevitably led to heaps of junk. As a result Maine has produced some extraordinary inventors and inventions with many aimed at a simply making daily life, easier and more comfortable: from Joseph Peavey's self-named tool that dramatically improved log driving to Chester Greenwood's ear muffs to Charles Forster's toothpicks to Hiram Maxim's machine gun to the L.L. Bean Duck Boot.
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781952143021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The genius Thomas Edison once said all anyone needed in order to invent something was a good imagination and a pile of junk. Imagination and creativity have always been essential qualities for survival in Maine and the ingrained habits of "saving up" and "making do" inevitably led to heaps of junk. As a result Maine has produced some extraordinary inventors and inventions with many aimed at a simply making daily life, easier and more comfortable: from Joseph Peavey's self-named tool that dramatically improved log driving to Chester Greenwood's ear muffs to Charles Forster's toothpicks to Hiram Maxim's machine gun to the L.L. Bean Duck Boot.
Downeast Genius
Author: Earl Smith
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781952143274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In this breezy history, Earl Smith highlights the stories of more than 50 Maine inventors and their inventions--from earmuffs to chewing gum to machine guns--showcasing the impact they had on the world and the way we live today.
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781952143274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In this breezy history, Earl Smith highlights the stories of more than 50 Maine inventors and their inventions--from earmuffs to chewing gum to machine guns--showcasing the impact they had on the world and the way we live today.
Lombards of Maine
Author: Lawrence M. Sturtevant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Maine-born Scientists, Engineers, and Inventors
Author: Walter Marshall Macdougall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Maine People Projects
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 9780635093554
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The People Projects Book includes using sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized state People on Parade, making a diversity flag, writing a poem about a state poet, designing a scrapbook of famous state women and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 9780635093554
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The People Projects Book includes using sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized state People on Parade, making a diversity flag, writing a poem about a state poet, designing a scrapbook of famous state women and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.
Microwave Man
Author: Sara L. Latta
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766042014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Most people love microwave popcorn or a warm snack from the microwave, but before 1975, homes did not have this great device. How did Percy Spencer go from a small town mill worker to the inventor of one of the most popular devices in the world? Find out how Spencer's love of science and machines, along with his strong work ethic, helped him achieve a patent for the invention of the microwave oven.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766042014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Most people love microwave popcorn or a warm snack from the microwave, but before 1975, homes did not have this great device. How did Percy Spencer go from a small town mill worker to the inventor of one of the most popular devices in the world? Find out how Spencer's love of science and machines, along with his strong work ethic, helped him achieve a patent for the invention of the microwave oven.
Inventions and their inventors 1750-1920
Author: Dave Rogers
Publisher: M-Y Books Limited
ISBN: 1906986584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Our everyday lives are continually influenced by inventors whose ideas have led to commercial products available in most high streets across the civilised world. For the most part these creative individuals have remained relatively unknown. Yet some of the companies set up by the successful inventors survive to this day albeit with company names no longer associated with the original idea. Volume 1 of this two volume set documents some of the key inventions from the 'Spinning Jenny' invented by Hargraves in the late eighteenth century, to some of the most commercially successful ideas of the early 20th century.
Publisher: M-Y Books Limited
ISBN: 1906986584
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Our everyday lives are continually influenced by inventors whose ideas have led to commercial products available in most high streets across the civilised world. For the most part these creative individuals have remained relatively unknown. Yet some of the companies set up by the successful inventors survive to this day albeit with company names no longer associated with the original idea. Volume 1 of this two volume set documents some of the key inventions from the 'Spinning Jenny' invented by Hargraves in the late eighteenth century, to some of the most commercially successful ideas of the early 20th century.
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine.
Author: Earl Brechlin
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781944762803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781944762803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue: Foreign states
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description