Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers, Paperback

What does it take to change the world? This book provides inspiring, in-depth stories of more than 25 diverse American inventors and entrepreneurs from Colonial times to the present. Richly illustrated with photographs in color and black-and-white, Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers focuses on the process of invention, its joys and frustrations, social progress, and the obstacles each inventor had to overcome.

Pendred Noyce is a doctor, science education advocate, and author of 12 books of fiction and nonfiction for young people. Three of her books have won Outstanding Science Trade Book awards from the National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council.