Great Inventors and Their Inventions

About this film

LibriVox recording of Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman. Read in English by PNWDAN509; MaryAnn; Maggie Travers; Linda Andrus; Scott Bennett; Jesse Zuba This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck. From the sides of the boat, there stood out queer shaped paddle wheels. Of a sudden, the clouds of smoke from the smokestack grew larger, the paddle wheels turned, and the boat, to the astonishment of all, moved. It was "Fulton's Folly," the Clermont, on her first trip to Albany. The first boat used by man was probably the trunk of a fallen tree, moved about by means of a broken branch or pole. Then some savage saw that a better boat could be made by tying a number of logs together to make a raft. But rafts are hard to move, so the heart of a log was hollowed out by means of a stone ax or fire, to make a still better boat, or strips of birch bark were skillfully fastened together to form a graceful…

Directors & creators

Frank Puterbaugh Bachman

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;telegraph; inventions; inventors; stream engine; steam boat; cotton gin; locomotives; steel

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