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Entrepreneurs and Inventors

 

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Entrepreneurs

 

Call #                   Author                 Title

 

J 338.04                 Pile                       Top Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses

J 338.7                   Greenberg           Ben & Jerry:  Ice Cream for Everyone

J 338.7                   Greenberg           Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak:  Creating the Apple Computer

J 338.7685             Greenberg           Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight:  Building the Nike Empire

J 650.14                 Aaseng                 Close Calls:  From the Brink of Ruin to Business Success

J 920                      Aaseng                 The Fortunate Fortunes

J 920                      Haskins                African American Entrepreneurs

J 921                      Bredeson             Ross Perot: Billionaire Politician

 

JB Aguirre           Copley                 The Tall Mexican: the life of Hank Aguirre; all star pitcher, businessman, humanitarian

 

JB Bezos               Sherman               Jeff Bezos: King of Amazon

JB Carnegie         Kent                      Andrew Carnegie:  Steel King and  friend to libraries

JB Deere               Collins                 Pioneer Plowmaker:  A Story about John Deere

JB Gates               Peters                   Bill Gates: Software Genius of Microsoft

JB Hershey          Simon                   Milton Hershey:  Chocolate King, Town Builder

JB Kellogg           Epstein                 W.K. Kellogg :  Generous Genius

JB Morgan           Byman                  J.P. Morgan:  Banker to a Growing Nation

JB Rockefeller     Segali                   John D. Rockefeller:  Anointed with oil

JB Turner             Byman                  Ted Turner: cable television tycoon

JB Walton            Canedeo              Sam Walton, the giant of Walmart

 

Inventors

Call #                   Author                 Title

J 609.22                 Aaseng                 Twentieth Century Inventors

J 609.2273             Jeffrey                   American Inventors of the 20th Century

J 609.2273             McKissack           African American Inventors

J 609.2273             Noonan                Nineteenth Century Inventors

J 609.2273             Vare                      Women Inventors and their Discoveries

JB Bell                   Pasachoff               Alexander Graham Bell:  Making Connections

JB Braille              Freedman            Out of Darkness:  The Story of Louis Braille

JB Carver             Nicholson            George Washington Carver

JB Eastman          Mitchell               Click:  A Story about George Eastman

JB Edison             Sproule                Thomas A. Edison The World’s Greatest Inventor

JB Farnsworth     McPherson          TV’s Forgotten Hero:  The Story of Philo T. Farnsworth

JB Ford                 Kent                      The Story of Henry Ford and the Automobile

JB Franklin          Usel                      Benjamin Franklin:  A Photo-Illustrated Biography

JB Fulton              Bowen                  A Head Full of Notions:  A Story about Robert Fulton

JB Marconi           Parker                  Guglielmo Marconi and Radio

JB Morgan           Jackson                 Garrett Morgan Inventor

JB Morse              Latham                 Samuel F.B. Morse:  Artist-Inventor

JB Nobel              Bankston              Alfred Nobel and the Story of the Nobel Prize

JB Whitney          Latham                 Eli Whitney Great Inventor

 

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