Inventors -- Biography
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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)
- 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)
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Filed under: Inventors- Free Innovation (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Eric von Hippel (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Great Inventors and Their Inventions (1918), by Frank P. Bachman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
- The Peacemaker (1934), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Skin and Bones (1933), by Thorne Smith (HTML and MS Reader in the UK; NO US ACCESS)
- The American Claimant (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), by Mark Twain
- The Centaurians: A Novel (New York: Broadway Publishing Co., c1911), by Biagi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Facing the Flag (New York: The Federal Book Company, 1897), by Jules Verne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- Facing the Flag (New York: F. M. Lupton, 1897), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
- 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)
- French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun (New York: Hurst and Co., c1912), by Richard Bonner, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.`), by Richard Bonner, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Hike and the Aeroplane (published under "Tom Graham" pseudonym; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Arthur Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Ted and the Telephone (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by William F. Stecher (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Woman as Inventor (Woman Suffrage tracts #1; 1870), by Matilda Joslyn Gage (page images at Harvard)
- 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
- 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)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
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