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2) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
5) Kellogg's
Author
Series
Publisher
VGM Career Horizons
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the man whose Model T automobile made the gasoline powered car affordable to Americans, selling in 1908 for eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and later became a famous philanthropist, establishing the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913.
Author
Publisher
Silver Burdett Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
11) Henry Ford
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Burdett
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American inventor and industrialist who is best known for making the automobile practical, through both his revolutionary assembly lines and his desire to make a car every working man could afford.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 128 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces the automotive, engineering, and labor innovator, discussing both his finer points and his flaws and also providing 21 hands-on activities to encourage young people to apply engineering and production ideas and learn more about the era.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
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