Genesis
Books About Inventions
Books About Inventions
- "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson
- "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World" by Steven Johnson
- "Invention: A Life" by James Dyson
- "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
- "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age" by W. Bernard Carlson
- "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" by Jon Gertner
- "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Simon Winchester
- "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel
- "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
- "The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford" by Suzanne Slade
- "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh
- "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean
- "Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century" by Sean Patrick
- "The Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War" by Nick Taylor
- "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret" by Seth Shulman
- "The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet" by David Kahn
- "The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution" by T.R. Reid
- "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers" by Tom Standage
- "Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943" by David Kahn
- "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf
- "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance" by Henry Petroski
- "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson
- "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
- "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes
- "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder
- "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick
- "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler" by Thomas Hager
- "The Invention of Everything Else" by Samantha Hunt
- "The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention" by Alexander Monro
- "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd