Inventing Modern America: From the microwave to the mouse buy the book about the book links and resources about the Lemelson-MIT program games
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Doug Engelbart
Thomas Fogarty
Ashok Gadgil
Stephanie Kwolek
Paul MacCready
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Inventing Modern America includes hundreds of photographs, drawings, and diagrams that illuminate the inventors' lives and work. The book's bold, inventive, and clear design combines all of these elements into compelling visual profiles that complement the inventors' stories.

Included here are several sample two-page spreads from the book. You can buy the book online—or at your local bookstore—to experience the rest of Inventing Modern America.

Click on any of the pages below to view a printer-friendly PDF file. PDF files can be viewed with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader 		 
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