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Shortchanged by history : America's neglected innovators
- Title
- Shortchanged by history : America's neglected innovators / by Vernon Pizer ; illustrated by Catherine Stock.
- Author
- Pizer, Vernon.
- Publication
- New York : Putnam, c1979.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stock, Catherine.
- Description
- 158 p. : ill.
- Subject
- Inventors
- Note
- Includes index.
- Discusses the lives and contributions of little-known inventors in American history including Joseph Jenks who invented a more efficient scythe and James Buchanan Eads who completed and launched the first ironclad in American waters.
- ISBN
- 0399206655
- LCCN
- 78024141
- Author
- Pizer, Vernon.
- Title
- Shortchanged by history : America's neglected innovators / by Vernon Pizer ; illustrated by Catherine Stock.
- Imprint
- New York : Putnam, c1979.
- Added Author
- Stock, Catherine.
- Branch Call Number
- J 920 P