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    Stories of Great Inventors
    Stories of Great Inventors
    Stories of Great Inventors
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    Stories of Great Inventors

    By Hattie Macomber

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    The Stories of Great Inventors will intrigue each person and
    inspire them to think uniquely. The stories will set young minds
    wondering and encourage them to gift the world with something
    new, extraordinary and useful.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher16Leaves
    Release dateMay 6, 2021
    ISBN9781005675226
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      Stories of Great Inventors - Hattie Macomber

      STORIES OF GREAT INVENTORS

      Stories of Great Inventors

      Hattie E. Macomber

      This edition has been reproduced from the Young Folk's Library of Choice Literature previously published by Educational Publishing Company 1897

      Copyright © Publisher, 2021

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, write to the publisher at the address below. This book can be exported from India only by the publishers or by the authorized suppliers. Infringement of this condition of sale will lead to Civil and Criminal prosecution.

      PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-​93-​90508-​167

      Note: This book has been inspired from the original version of Stories of Great Inventors book available in the public domain. Due care and diligence has been taken while bringing out this edition; neither the author nor the publishers of the book hold any responsibility for any mistake that may have inadvertently crept in. The publishers shall not be liable for any direct, consequential, or incidental damages arising out of the use of the book.

      Published by

      16Leaves

      2/​579, Singaravelan Salai, Neelankarai,

      Chennai, India 600041

      Ph. 91-​9840 954 954

      info@16leaves.com

      The Stories of Great Inventors’ will intrigue each child and inspire them to think uniquely. The stories will set young minds wondering and encourage them to gift the world with something new, extraordinary and useful. What happened when Robert Fulton tamed the strange white giant? This book narrates the beautiful story of cotton through the innovative mind of Eli Whitney. The life’s story of the American portrait painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse is exceptionally fascinating. The book narrates in simple, lucid language how he rocked the world with one of the greatest discoveries of the century, the electric telegraph, and gained worldwide fame for inventing the Morse Code. And it will be interesting to know why the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison sat on a Goose Nest with his dress spread out. Fantasy turned to reality when Edison invented the way to send four messages over a single wire. The narratives of great minds of all ages, their struggle and their epic moments of elation, failure and invention will keep children of all ages glued to the book.

      CONTENTS

      Robert Fulton

      Eli Whitney

      Samuel Finley Breese Morse

      Peter Cooper

      THOMAS A. EDISON

      ROBERT FULTON

      FULTON

      This story is about a giant.

      Do you believe in them?

      He peeps out of your coffee cup in the morning.

      He cheers you upon a cold day in winter.

      But the boys and girls were not so well acquainted with him a hundred years ago.

      About that long ago, far to the north and east, a queer boy lived.

      He sat in his grandmother's kitchen many an hour, watching the tea-​kettle.

      He seemed to be idle.

      But he was really very busy.

      He was talking very earnestly to the giant.

      The giant was a prisoner.

      No one knew how to free him.

      Many had often tried to do this and failed.

      He was almost always invisible.

      But when he did appear, it was in the form of a very old man.

      This old man had long, white hair, and a beard which seemed to enwrap him like a cloak—​a cloak as white as snow.

      So his name is The White Giant.

      The boy's name was James Watt.

      He lived in far-​away Scotland.

      He sat long, listening to the White Giant as he told him many wonderful things.

      The way in which the giant first showed himself to James was very strange.

      James noticed that the lid of the tea-​kettle was acting very strangely.

      It rose and fell, fluttered and danced.

      Now, James had lived all his life among people who believed in witches and fairies.

      So he was watching for them.

      And he thought there was somebody in the kettle trying to get out.

      So he said, Who are you and what do you want?

      Space, freedom, and something to do, cried the giant.

      "If you will only let me out, I'll work hard for you.

      I'll draw your carriages and ships.

      I'll lift all your weights.

      I'll turn all the wheels of your factories.

      I'll be your servant always, in a thousand other ways."

      JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT, 1788.

      By permission of Providence & Stonington Steamship Co.

      If you have now guessed the common name of this giant, we will call him Steam.

      At the time James Watt lived, there were no steam boats, steam mills, nor railways.

      And this boy, though his grandmother scolded, thought much about the giant

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