Dreamers and Doers (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Richards
- First Published: 1984
- Time of Work: 1800–1945
- Setting: Massachusetts, New Mexico, Maryland, Pennsylvania, England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, and New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Robert H. Goddard, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Alva Edison, George Eastman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Photography or photographers, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Rocketry or rockets
- Locales: New York, Ohio, England, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Jersey
Form and Content
In Dreamers and Doers: Inventors Who Changed Our World, Norman Richards profiles four honorees from the National Inventors Hall of Fame: Robert Goddard, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Edison, and George Eastman. The book begins with an introduction acknowledging the range of inventions that have bettered the lives of Americans and introducing the book’s central theme: Each inventor was both a dreamer and a doer who persisted in the face of discouragement and failure. The introduction briefly describes the National Inventors Hall of Fame, instituted in 1973...
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