Nov 14, 2009
Dreamers and Doers | Dreamers and Doers
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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