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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Last Days of Night
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4.16 avg rating — 44,193 ratings
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
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3.91 avg rating — 12,830 ratings
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Ben & Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
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3.82 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius
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4.10 avg rating — 2,984 ratings
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The Great Wheel
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3.85 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
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4.04 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr
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3.77 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Thomas Alva Edison; sixty years of an inventor's life by Francis Arthur Jones; with numerous illustrations from photographs. 1908 [Leather Bound]
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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3.85 avg rating — 91,910 ratings
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman – The Media Icon Who Reimagined Womanhood and Championed Female Ambition
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3.65 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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4.13 avg rating — 116 ratings
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My Life And Work
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4.18 avg rating — 5,511 ratings
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
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3.83 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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The Spirit of St. Louis
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4.17 avg rating — 1,551 ratings
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 2,147 ratings
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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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3.85 avg rating — 17,477 ratings
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Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
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3.98 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
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Going Deep: John Phillip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
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3.70 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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Inventions: The Legendary Works (A) of America’s (B) Most Honored (C) Cartoonist
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3.94 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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4.08 avg rating — 2,734 ratings
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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3.93 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
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4.07 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
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4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
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3.63 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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4.12 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
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3.57 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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The Lightning Keeper
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2.71 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
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4.02 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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The Invention of Everything Else
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3.52 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
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3.90 avg rating — 3,823 ratings
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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
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4.32 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
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3.89 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
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The Creative Process: Reflections on Invention in the Arts and Sciences
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3.73 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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4.22 avg rating — 189,702 ratings
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Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution
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2.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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3.86 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
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A Case of Curiosities
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3.73 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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Carver: A Life in Poems
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3.99 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
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4.11 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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3.87 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
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3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Princeton Science Library, 91)
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3.94 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
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3.25 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
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4.12 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Roy Orbison: Invention Of An Alternative Rock Masculinity
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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4.02 avg rating — 788 ratings
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The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
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3.76 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,750 ratings
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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4.03 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession
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3.85 avg rating — 621 ratings
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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3.96 avg rating — 2,612 ratings
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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3.82 avg rating — 764 ratings
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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3.98 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
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4.01 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
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4.11 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
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4.19 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Inventing American History (Boston Review Books)
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
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4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
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3.89 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
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3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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4.14 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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