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• Inventors -- United States -- Biography
• Inventors -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• Inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature

• 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)

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

• 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)

• A psychic autobiography (Greaves Publishing Company, 1910), by Amanda Theodocia Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A psychic autobiography (Greaves Publishing Co., 1910), by Amanda Theodocia Jones and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A psychic autobiography (William Rider & Son ;, 1911), by Amanda Theodocia Jones and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• 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)

• Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text)
• Hero Tales From American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)
• When they were boys (F. A. Owen Publishing Company, 1922), by Carroll Everett, Charles E. Bracker, Mary E. Owen, Helen Mildred Owen, Charles Francis Reed, and F.A. Owen Pub. Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• World stories retold : with practical suggestions for telling (The Judson Press, 1922), by William James Sly (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of boyhoods : Chaucer to MacDowell (E.P. Dutton & company, 1920), by Eugénie Mary Fryer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans all : a pageant of great Americans (Fideler Co., 1941), by Barbara K. Anthony, Kreigh Collins, and Marcillene Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frontier leaders and pioneers (D. McKay Co., 1962), by Dorothy Heiderstadt and Clifford N. Geary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• First lessons in American history (B.H. Sanborn & co., 1918), by Lawton B. Evans and Elvira M. Slaughter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone: Taming the Wilds, by Katharine Elliott Wilkie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Stories of New York (Educational Publishing Company, 1896), by Anna Temple Lovering and Educational Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dashing Paul Jones : the hero of the colonial navy (David McKay, 1895), by Frank Sheridan and David McKay (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Washington Carver, Negro scientist (Garrard Press, 1960), by Sam Epstein, William Moyers, and Beryl Epstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Babe Didrikson Zaharias, striving to be champion (Britannica Books, 1961), by Helen Markley Miller and Richard Mlodock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West (Macmillan, 1906), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The true story of U.S. Grant, the American soldier, told for boys and girls (Lothrop Pub. Co., 1897), by Elbridge S. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the life of Lafayette : as told by a father to his children (Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831), by Mrs. John Farrar, E.W. Metcalf & Co, and Gray Hilliard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Thomas J. Jackson (B. F. Johnson Publ. Co., 1918), by Mary L. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories about Arnold, the traitor, Andre, the spy, and Champe, the patriot : for the children of the United States : with engravings. (A.H. Maltby, 1831), by Abiel Holmes Maltby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Standard-Bearer; Or, The Life of General Uysses S. Grant, by Oliver Optic, illust. by Samuel Smith Kilburn and Thomas Nast (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving: For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.