Invention


The Wright Brothers
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
If I Built a Car (If I Built Series)
Steve Jobs
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
The Last Days of Night
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Ayn Rand
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was cons ...more
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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