Aaseng, Nathan.

Twentieth-century inventors / Nathan Aaseng. - New York : Facts on File, c1991. - xii, 132 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - American profiles . - American profiles (Facts on File, Inc.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provides accounts of ten significant twentieth-century inventions and the people behind them, including the Wright brothers and their airplane, Robert Goddard and his rocket, and Gordon Gould and his laser.

ISBN: 0816024855

LCCN: 90046547 /AC

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Inventors--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Inventors.

Subjects--Index Terms: Inventors - United States - Biography

LC Class. No.: T39 / .A37 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 609.2/2 B 92