7 For Further Reading 7Klein, Maury. The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the
Men Who Invented Modern America. New York, NY:
Bloomsbury, 2008.
Man, John. Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with
Words. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
Mellor, C. Michael. Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius.
Boston, MA: National Braille Press, 2006.
Newman, Paul B. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 2001.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton
and the American Dream. New York, NY: The Free
Press, 2001.
Seifer, Marc. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla.
Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 2001.
Shulman, Seth. The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander
Graham Bell’s Secret. New York, NY: W. W.
Norton, 2008.
Silverman, Kenneth. Lightning Man: the Accursed Life
of Samuel F. B. Morse. New York, NY: Da Capo
Press, 2003.
Smith, Roger. Inventions and Inventors. Pasadena, CA:
Salem Press, 2002.
Stross, Randall E. Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva
Edison Invented the Modern World. New York, NY:
Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Webster, Raymond B. African American Firsts in Science and
Technology. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1999.
Watts, Steven. The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the
American Century. New York, NY: Vintage, 2005.
Wood, John C., and Michael C. Wood, eds. Henry Ford:
Critical Evaluations In Business and Management. New
York, NY: Routledge, 2005.