Rochester Institute of Technology

Inventor Frank Sprague, ‘The Father of Electric Traction’ Profiled in New Biography

Frank Sprague, the engineer and inventor who is considered “The Father of Electric Traction,” is the subject of a new biography co-authored by William Middleton III, professor of ...
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Men who have risen ; containing authentic and entertaining biographies of the most celebrated inventors, discoverers, merchants, mechanics, capitalists, scientists and scholars ...

Added t.p., engraved: Men who have risen: book for boys. This edition omits the sketches of Davy and Eldon, but adds those of Benjamin West, Elihu Burritt and David Rittenhouse. Stephenson, The ...
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No ordinary being : W. Starling Burgess: inventor, naval architect, poet, aviation pioneer, and master of American design : a biography / by Llewellyn Howland III

Burgess Sons, Burgess Brothers, 1878-1891 -- Milton, Cambridge, Boston, Salem, 1892-1902 -- Salem, London, and Salem, 1902-1904 -- Burgess of Burgess & Packard, 1904-1910 -- From Kitty Hawk to Plum ...
Dallas Morning News

GCISD teachers helped research a new way to teach engineering to young students

Two GCISD teachers helped research a new way to teach elementary school students about engineering through biographies. Their work, which was a practical implementation of an academic study, was ...