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21) Made by Maxine
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Maxine's school puts on a pet parade, she creates a unique contraption to allow her very special pet fish, Milton, to participate.
Author
Series
Desperate duchesses by the numbers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Self-made man Aidan Iverson has seen more closed doors in his thirty years than he's ever cared to count. As a member of the elite Duke's Den, he has all the money he could possibly need but the one thing he can't purchase is true power. If roguish Aidan can't buy his way into society's hallowed halls, he'll resort to a more extreme measure: marriage. Brought up to be a proper lady, the only thing Diana Ashby desires is to be left alone to the creation...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Although Alexander Graham Bell is widely accepted as the father of the telephone (despite the fact that rival inventor Elisha Gray submitted a similar claim the same day Bell filed his patent), Schulman provides intriguing evidence questioning if the scales were deliberately tipped in Alexander's favor"--From amazon.com.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
Author
Series
Walnut Animal Society volume 1
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Henry the fox, the inventor in the Walnut Animal Society, loses his idea, his friend Eleanor the bear entices him to take a walk and before long, his idea comes back to him.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Czech
Description
Includes: Invention For Destruction.
Czechoslovak filmmaker Karel Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to realms beyond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combinations of live-action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to legends such as Georges Méliès. Presented here are three of Zeman's most enchanting fantasies: Journey To The Beginning Of Time; Invention For Destruction;...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York City thrums with energy, wonder, and possibility in this magical novel about the life of Nikola Tesla. It is 1943, and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Louisa, a young maid at the hotel determined to befriend him, wins his attention through a shared love of pigeons; with her we hear his tragic and tremendous life story unfold. Meanwhile, Louisa discovers...
36) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen, 26th anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebellion drove Mercy Rutherford to Scotland to escape the possessive grip of her fiancé. But it's fate that lands her in the crumbling highlands castle of Lennox Caitheart. A dreamer with visions of inventing airships, he's most certainly mad. Handsome beyond words, he's also causing an irresistible flutter in her stomach beyond reason. When Gregory arrives to see their arranged marriage to its bitter end, Mercy desperately turns to Ross with an...
40) Robots go wild!
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
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