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Invention Books
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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as invention)
avg rating 4.18 — 98,564 ratings — published 2015
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as invention)
avg rating 4.12 — 445,019 ratings — published 2015
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 8 times as invention)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,866 ratings — published 2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as invention)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,764 ratings — published 2011
If I Built a Car (If I Built Series)
by (shelved 6 times as invention)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,271 ratings — published 2005
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as invention)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,358,314 ratings — published 2011
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)
by (shelved 5 times as invention)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,083 ratings — published
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as invention)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,114 ratings — published 2014
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as invention)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,276 ratings — published 1995
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,682 ratings — published 2009
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,046 ratings — published 2023
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,196 ratings — published 2019
The Last Days of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.16 — 44,085 ratings — published 2016
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.05 — 505 ratings — published 2016
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,376 ratings — published 2000
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.20 — 245 ratings — published 2015
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as invention)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,398 ratings — published 2011
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,503 ratings — published 2019
The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson's Famous Frozen Treat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.16 — 328 ratings — published 2014
Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.38 — 261 ratings — published
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,134 ratings — published 1998
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.17 — 601 ratings — published 2019
What Do You Do With an Idea? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.47 — 10,332 ratings — published 2014
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,274 ratings — published 2016
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,858 ratings — published 2012
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 4.22 — 189,577 ratings — published 2007
So You Want to Be an Inventor? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as invention)
avg rating 3.98 — 270 ratings — published 2002
Invention: A Life (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,377 ratings — published
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.34 — 393 ratings — published 2024
Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of Master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.43 — 90 ratings — published
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,895 ratings — published 2013
Invented by Animals: Meet the creatures who inspired our everyday technology (Designed by Nature)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.17 — 121 ratings — published 2021
Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure (Mouse Adventures)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,562 ratings — published 2018
Papa's Mechanical Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.92 — 982 ratings — published 2013
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,161 ratings — published 2018
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,911 ratings — published 1994
Sweet Dreams, Sarah: From Slavery to Inventor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.43 — 320 ratings — published 2019
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor (People Who Shaped Our World, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.24 — 612 ratings — published 2019
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.34 — 823 ratings — published 2018
Izzy Gizmo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.22 — 696 ratings — published 2017
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.17 — 930,101 ratings — published 1964
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,082 ratings — published 2016
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,473 ratings — published 2010
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,377 ratings — published 2010
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,549 ratings — published 2009
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,614 ratings — published 2008
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.21 — 423 ratings — published 2012
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.19 — 801 ratings — published 2015
Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 4.08 — 145 ratings — published 2015
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (Doctor Proctor #1)
by (shelved 2 times as invention)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,662 ratings — published 2007
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
― The Works of Archimedes
― The Works of Archimedes
