The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, Diyers, and Inventors Who Make America Great

by Alec Foege

Book Overview

From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work, and a belief that anything can be improved, amateurs and professionals from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison came up with the inventions that laid the foundations for America's economic dominance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465009239
• ISBN13: 9780465009237
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher