Books About Inventions

1. "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson
2. "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World" by Steven Johnson
3. "Invention: A Life" by James Dyson
4. "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
5. "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age" by W. Bernard Carlson
6. "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" by Jon Gertner
7. "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Simon Winchester
8. "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel
9. "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
10. "The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford" by Suzanne Slade
11. "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh
12. "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean
13. "Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century" by Sean Patrick
14. "The Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War" by Nick Taylor
15. "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret" by Seth Shulman
16. "The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet" by David Kahn
17. "The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution" by T.R. Reid
18. "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers" by Tom Standage
19. "Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943" by David Kahn
20. "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf
21. "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance" by Henry Petroski
22. "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson
23. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
24. "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes
25. "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder
26. "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick
27. "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler" by Thomas Hager
28. "The Invention of Everything Else" by Samantha Hunt
29. "The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention" by Alexander Monro
30. "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd