Books in Inventors And Creators series

Although Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, he did make the automobile affordable for more people. He then went on to develop an assembly and production process that brought down the price of automobiles even more. With the support of his wife and his own single-minded determination to see him through the difficult times, Ford accomplished his goal of putting affordable transportation into the hands of average, working-class people.

Albert Einstein was one of the most famous scientists in the world. He once said that his mind was his laboratory and he was, in fact, able to work through processes in his head that others had to work out on paper. In his theory of relativity, he explained the relationship between space and time. His study of mass and energy ultimately led to the atomic bomb. His photoelectric effect eventually led to the development of television, the laser and photocells in security systems.

With a few brief months of formal schooling, Thomas Edison was largely self-taught. His career as a telegrapher was undistinguished, with Edison often being fired because he paid attention to his inventions and experiments rather than his work. He found his true calling as an inventor, and held the patents on over a thousand inventions, including the light bulb and the phonograph, during his lifetime.