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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)
• Edison, his life and inventions (Harper & Brothers, 1910), by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men of invention and industry (Harper & Brothers, 1885), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs of genius. (A. R. Keller Co., 1893), by W. Sanford Ramey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop (G. Routledge and Sons, 1859), by C. L. Brightwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juden als Erfinder und Entdecker. (Welt-Verlag, 1913), by Ernst Heppner and Nathan Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lights of two centuries : illustrated with fifty portraits (A. S. Barnes, 1887), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blind inventor, Story of a (William Tweedie, 1868), by John Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfinder und Erfindungen (Ullstein, 1913), by Albert Neuburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hires feltalálók (Singer és Wolfner :, 1912), by Kálmán Sztrókay and Ignác Balla (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventors (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Philip G. Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Watt of Soho and Heathfield : annals of industry and genius (Cornish, 1905), by T. Edgar Pemberton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The rocket, or, The story of the Stephensons, father and son (London et al.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1881), by Helen C. Knight (page images at Florida)

• How they blazed the way : men who have advanced civilization (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boyhood of Great Inventors, by A. Fraser Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rocket, or, the story of the Stephensons, father and son (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873), by Helen C. Knight (page images at Florida)
• True stories of great Americans for young Americans (Philadelphia et al.: John C. Winston & Co., 1897), by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and Thomas Sheppard Meek (page images at Florida)

• Eli Whitney, Great Inventor (Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., c1963), by Jean Lee Latham, illust. by Louis F. Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Alva Edison, miracle maker. (Garrard Pub. Co., 1962), by Mervyn D. Kaufman and Louis F. Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexander Graham Bell, man of sound. (Garrard Pub. Co., 1963), by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery and Gray Morrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Benjamin Franklin; embracing anecdotes illustrative of his character. (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1846), by John Frost and H. Hastings Weld (page images at HathiTrust)
• True stories of great Americans for young Americans; telling in simple language suited to boys and girls, the inspiring stories of the lives of George Washington, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, George Peabody, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jas. A. Garfield, Robert Fulton, Cyrus W. Field, Thos. A. Edison ([n.p., 1897), by Elbridge S. Brooks, Thomas Sheppard Meek, and John C. Winston Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hercules Florence (1804-1879) : ensaio historico-litterario (Typographia Andrade, Mello, & Comp., 1900), by Estevam Leão Bourroul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A biography of Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography) (Sydney, Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1890), by T. A. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de 4 inventeurs Francais (Hachette, 1884), by Alfred Auguste Ernouf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hercules Florence (1804-1879) : ensaio historico-litterario (Typographia Andrade, Mello, & Comp., 1900), by Estevam Leão Bourroul (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Life and times of Samuel Crompton of Hall-in-the-Wood, inventor of the spinning machine called the mule. (Charles Simms and Co., 1862), by Gilbert J. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief memoir of the late Captn. Joseph Huddart, F.R.S. and an account of his inventions in the manufacture of cordage, as contained in a letter [signed: W. Cotton] to James Walker, etc. (London, 1855), by William Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boyhood of Great Inventors, by A. Fraser Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)

• An address delivered at Laurel Hill Cemetery, on the completion of a monument erected to the memory of Thomas Godfrey : June 1st, 1843 (Young, printer, 1843), by G. Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Académie Aéronautique Bartholomeu de Gusmão ... : son rôle et son action dans les revendictions émises en faveur de B. de Gusmão (1685-1724), inventeur des aérostats et précurseur des navigateurs aériens : lettres, notes, documents et extraits de journaux : illustrations et dessins hors texte. (Imprimeries Réunies S.A., 1913), by Antonio de Portugal Faria and Académie Aéronautique Bartholomeu de Gusmāo (Paris) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• James Watt and the steam engine; the memorial volume prepared for the Committee of the Watt centenary commemoration at Birmingham 1919 (Clarendon press, 1927), by H. W. Dickinson, Rhys Jenkins, and Committee of the Watt Centenary Commemoration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of James Watt, with selections from his correspondence. (J. Murray, 1858), by James Patrick Muirhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Elias E. Ries, inventor (Philosophical Library, 1951), by Estelle H. Ries (page images at HathiTrust)
• From immigrant to inventor (Scribner, 1925), by Michael Pupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas A. Edison : the life-story of a great American. (George G. Harrap & Co., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Benjamin Franklin; containing the autobiography, with notes and a continuation. (Tappan and Dennet, 1844), by Benjamin Franklin and Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• A light is extinguished (The Author?], 1932), by L. W. McChesney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : with notes and a sketch of Franklin's life from the point where the autobiography ends (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (American book company, 1907), by Benjamin Franklin and Albert H. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete works of Benjamin Franklin; including his private as well as his official and scientific correspondence, and numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed, with many others not included in any former collection, also, the unmutilated and correct version of his autobiography. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887), by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Bryan Hall, John Bigelow, and Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Inventors Hall of Fame : dedicated to the spirit of invention. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, 1984), by United States Patent and Trademark Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventions : pamphlet volume. (1842) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nikola Tesla : život i dela (Štampa Ucit. K.D. "Natošević", 1926), by Slavko Bokšan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great American inventors and scientists at a glance (Pacific Coast Publishers, 1956), by Monroe Heath (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A life of George Westinghouse (C. Scribner, 1922), by Henry G. Prout and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Immigrant to Inventor, by Michael Pupin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cyrus W. Field, His Life and Work [1819-1892], ed. by Isabella Field Judson (Gutenberg ebook)

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