# Great Inventors and Their Inventions

An audiobook by Frank P. Bachman, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 57 min, English).

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 canoe. Boats were constructed also of rough-hewn boards. With such primitive craft, voyages of hundreds of miles were made up and down great rivers like the Mississippi, or along the…

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## Chapters

0. Preface (1:49): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_00_bachman_64kb.mp3
1. James Watt and the Invention of the Steam Engine (23:40): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_01_bachman_64kb.mp3
2. Robert Fulton and the Invention of the Steamboat (31:03): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_02_bachman_64kb.mp3
3. George Stephenson & Invention of the Locomotive (31:01): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_03_bachman_64kb.mp3
4. Invention of the Electric Engine (19:50): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_04_bachman_64kb.mp3
5. The Invention of the Spinning Machines (18:54): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_05_bachman_64kb.mp3
6. Eli Whitney & the Invention of the Cotton Gin (24:56): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_06_bachman_64kb.mp3
7. Elias Howe & the Invention of the Sewing Machine (26:15): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_07_bachman_64kb.mp3
8. Cyrus H. McCormick and the Invention of the Reaper (23:04): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_08_bachman_64kb.mp3
9. Henry Bessemer and the Making of Steel (38:45): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_09_bachman_64kb.mp3
10. John Gutenberg and the Invention of Printing (29:41): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_10_bachman_64kb.mp3
11. Samuel F. B Morse & the Invention of the Telegraph (31:41): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_11_bachman_64kb.mp3
12. Alexander Graham Bell & Invention of the Telephone (25:30): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_12_bachman_64kb.mp3
13. Thomas A. Edison (7:32): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_13_bachman_64kb.mp3
14. Orville and Wilbur Wright (9:13): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_14_bachman_64kb.mp3
15. Guglielmo Marconi (5:47): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_15_bachman_64kb.mp3
16. John P. Holland (8:05): https://archive.org/download/great_inventors_and_inventions_1507_librivox/greatinventorsandtheirinventions_16_bachman_64kb.mp3