Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers; True Incidents and Personal Experiences

by Russell Doubleday

Excerpt from Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers; True Incidents and Personal Experiences

Every great invention, afterward marvelled at, was first derided. Each great inventor, after solving problems in mechanics or chemistry, had to face the jeers of the incredulous.

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306 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2004

About the author

Russell Doubleday was an American author, editor and publisher.

Reviews

[Janelle]

Dnf. I was expecting an emphasis on the biographies of inventors but instead the emphasis was on how the inventions worked, sometimes without any reference to the inventor.

[Felicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a very old one and so most of the invention that are talked about in this book like steam engines, hot-air balloons etc are now well obsolete. But the stories about them are interesting. So if you want to know about old invention this can be a good read.