BOOKS INVENTIONS

 

Alt, Matt, Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World, Crown, 2021

 

Breverton, Terry, Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions: A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries, and Scientific Breakthroughs, Lyons Press, 2019

 

Brown, Henry T., 507 Mechanical Movements, Martino Fine Books, 2013

 

Browne, John, Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilization, Pegasus Books, 2021

 

Buderi, Robert, The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution, Touchstone, 1998

 

Cairns, James L., The Inventor's Complete Handbook How to Develop, Patent, and Commercialize Your Ideas: How to Develop, Patent, and Commercialize Your Ideas, Atlantic Publishing Group Inc., 2015

 

Chinea, Dominic, Machines A Visual History: 100 Machines and the Remarkable Stories Behind Each Invention, DK, 2024

 

Christensen, Clayton M., The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change), Harvard Business Review Press, 2024

 

Cohen, Benyamin, The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds (Fascinating and Funny Pop Science Book for Adults), Sourcebooks, 2023

 

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Harper Perennial, 2013

 

Du Sautoy, Marcus, The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020

 

Dyson, James, Invention: A Life of Learning Through Failure, Simon & Schuster, 2022

 

Eisen, Jonathan, Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries: Revealing the World's Greatest Secrets of Science and Medicine, Tarcher, 2001

 

Faggin, Federico, Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness, Waterside Productions, 2021

 

Fouché, Rayvon, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

 

Gertner, Jon, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Penguin Books, 2013

 

Gray, Charlotte, Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention, Arcade, 2021

 

Gray, Theodore, Nick Mann, How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022

 

Hager, Thomas, Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia, Harry N. Abrams, 2022

 

Hager, Thomas, The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler, Crown, 2009

 

Hamilton, Kristy, Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation, Greystone Books, 2023

 

Hammack, Bill Ph.D., The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans, Sourcebooks, 2024

 

Harford, Tim, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, Riverhead Books, 2018

 

Harford, Tim, The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, The Bridge Street Press, 2022

 

Hughes, Larry J., Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II, Stackpole Books, 2024

 

Johnson, Steven, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, Riverhead Books, 2015

 

Lienhard, John H., How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines, Oxford University Press, 2008

 

Marçal, Katrine, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men, Harry N. Abrams, 2022

 

Morus, Iwan Rhys, How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future, Icon Books, 2022

 

North, Ryan, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Riverhead Books, 2019

 

Publications International Ltd., Great American Inventions, Publications International, Ltd., 2018

 

Quinn, Susan, Marie Curie: A Life (Radcliffe Biography Series), Grand Central Publishing, 1996

 

Ragan, Sean Michael, Total Inventor's Manual: Transform Your Idea into a Top-Selling Product (Popular Science), Weldon Owen, 2018

 

Ridley, Matt, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, Harper Perennial, 2021

 

Scherz, Paul, Simon Monk, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, McGraw Hill TAB, 2016

 

Sluby, Patricia Carter, The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity, Praeger; Illustrated edition, 2004

 

Stojkovic, Jennifer, The Future of Food Is Female: Reinventing the Food System to Save the Planet, VWS Press, 2022

 

Tesla, Nikola, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, Martino Fine Books, 2018

 

Tesla, Nikola, Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

 

Tesla, Nikola, On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

 

Tesla, Nikola, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy, Martino Fine Books, 2019

 

Tesla, Nikola, Thomas Commerford Martin, The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works (Leather-bound Classics) (Leather Bound), Canterbury Classics, 2021

 

Tesla, Nikola, Vojin Popovic, Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

 

Vallejo, Irene, Charlotte Whittle, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, Vintage, 2025

 

Watson, Peter, Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud, Harper Perennial, 2006