Stories of Invention
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- First published
- 1889
- Pages
- 169Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 6 of 10
A little about the story
The stories of great inventions, told as far as possible in the words of the inventors and their friends: steam engines, printing, clocks, the telescope and more, from Archimedes to modern times.
Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, wanted young readers to see how invention really happens.
Things You May Not Know About Stories of Invention
- Subtitled Told by Inventors and Their Friends.
- The last of a series of five books by Hale.
- A tribute to public libraries. Hale praises the new public library system in his preface.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
