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• From Immigrant to Inventor (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1949), by Michael Pupin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. (Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1791), by William Smith (page images here at Penn)
• Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (New York: Ives Washburn Inc., c1944), by John J. O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Inventions (as published in 1919 in The Electrical Experimenter), by Nikola Tesla (HTML at teslaplay.com)

• Eli Whitney, Great Inventor (Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., c1963), by Jean Lee Latham, illust. by Louis F. Cary (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg text)

• Jack Wright and His Electric Stage: or, Leagued Against the James Boys (Boys' star library #344, by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Legacy: The Life of Nikola Tesla, by Norma Brody (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Hezekiah Butterworth, illust. by H. Winthrop Peirce (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Legacy: The Life of Nikola Tesla, by Norma Brody (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-Inventor (Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., c1961), by Jean Lee Latham, illust. by Jo Polseno (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• The Autobiography and Other Writings, by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 1917), by John Clyde Oswald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by William Cabell Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Four American Leaders (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Franklin and the University; Frankliniana in the University Library (reprinted from the "Alumni Register" of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906), by J. G. Rosengarten and Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin, by William M. Thayer (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Benjamin Franklin, by M. L. Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• Life of Benjamin Franklin: A Continuation of Franklin's Autobiography, by Jared Sparks (HTML at ushistory.org)
• Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania (Washington: GPO, 1893), ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution, by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, the Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers (New York: Truth Seeker Co., ca. 1906), by John E. Remsburg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Story of a Famous Book: An Account of Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly; Boston: For private distribution, 1871), by Samuel A. Green
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. (Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1791), by William Smith (page images here at Penn)

• Benjamin Franklin Vindicated: An Exposure of the Franklin "Prophecy" by American Scholars (ca. 1938), ed. by American Jewish Congress, contrib. by Charles A. Beard, Henry Butler Allen, Alfred Rigling, J. Henry Smythe, Julian P. Boyd, John Clyde Oswald, and Carl Van Doren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charles A. Beard Exposes Anti-Semitic Forgery About Benjamin Franklin (Jewish frontier reprints #4; New York: League for Labor Palestine, ca. 1935), by Charles A. Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Exercise, Performed at the Public Commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, July 17. 1790, Containing an Ode, Set to Music, Sacred to the Memory of Dr. Franklin, by William Smith (page images here at Penn)

• The Story of a Famous Book: An Account of Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly; Boston: For private distribution, 1871), by Samuel A. Green
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• From Immigrant to Inventor (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1949), by Michael Pupin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (New York: Ives Washburn Inc., c1944), by John J. O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla; With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting (with three lectures by Tesla; New York: Electrical Engineer, 1894), by Thomas Commerford Martin, contrib. by Nikola Tesla
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Inventions (as published in 1919 in The Electrical Experimenter), by Nikola Tesla (HTML at teslaplay.com)

• Three Unusual Scientists: John Keely, Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell: Three One-Act Plays, by Martha Keltz (PDF, text, Word, and RTF at studioeditions.com)

• Men of Invention and Industry, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
• Men of Invention and Industry (based on the 1884 J. Murray edition, with added illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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