Stories of Great Inventors

The present book Stories of Great Inventors is a compilation of brief biographies of some of the greatest most noted inventors of the world’s history of scientific revolution. This book was first published in 1897 by Hattie E. Macomber. The biographies compiled here include the stories of lives of Robert Fulton – American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat Eli Whitney – an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin Samuel Morse – an American painter of portraits and historic scenes the creator of a single wire telegraph system and Morse Code Peter Cooper – an American industrialist inventor philanthropist and candidate for President of the United States and Thomas A. Edison – an American inventor and businessman who developed electric light bulb.