I just found a wonderful book of poetry by Joyce Sidman called Eureka: Poems About Inventors. Here is everyone who is included:
"The Tapestry of the Past"
- Prehistory - the discovery of clay
An Evening Among Peach Blossoms - invention of paper by Ts'ai Lun
Winged Words - Johann Gutenberg's printing press
Wizard - Leonardo da Vinci
"The Age of Invention"
- Those Fabulous Frenchmen - French balloonists in the 1700s
- Joseph Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier
Jacques Charles
Sebastien Lenormand
Jean Baptiste Meusnier
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Francois Pilatre de Rozier
Food of the Gods - the first chocolate bar
- François-Louis Cailler
Ode to Spode - invention of the dishwasher
- Josephine Garis Cochrane
There Is a Craving - Dr. Sara J. Baker, champion of children's health
The Real McCoy - invention of the self-lubricated engine
- Elijah McCoy
"A Light Interlude"
- Do Ya Know 'Em? - inventors whose names have become synonymous with their inventions
- James Watt
Alessandro Volta
Samuel Morse
Hans Wilhelm Geiger
Louis Braille
Louis Pasteur
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
Rudolf Diesel
Amelia Bloomer
Charles Macintosh
Jules Leotard
Joseph-Marie Jacquard
Levi Strauss
John McAdam
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
Sylvester Graham
John Montagu, earl of Sandwich
Thomas Crapper
"Dawn of the Modern Age"
- The Light -- Ah! The Light - Marie Curie
A Length of Pink Ribbon - invention of the bra
- Mary Caresse Crosby
Cockleburs - invention of Velcro
- George De Mestral
Walt Tells It Like It Is - invention of the Frisbee
- Walter Morrison
This Is My Life - Nobel Prize-winning scientists Barbara McClintock
Enquire Within - invention of the World Wide Web
- Tim Berners-Lee
I like to do a block on Famous Inventors in 2nd grade, so I'm happy to have this new resource!
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