Inventions, Biographies & Science History

Learn all about the history of science! The study of major inventions, WHO invented them, and the chain of scientists building upon the work of those who came before is a great way to learn about science and history simultaneously!

Master Books Survey of Science History

Turn Master Books' Exploring series into a homeschool science curriculum for high school. This 5-volume set includes The World of Biology, The World of Mathematics, The World of Physics, The World of Chemistry, and the Teacher Guide. The Teacher Guide provides a weekly lesson schedule, student worksheets, quizzes & tests, and an answer key. Pages are grouped by type, rather than by lesson, so parents can easily remove tests and answer keys. This course covers 1 year of science (worth 1 credit) at the recommended schedule of 3-4 days per week. The parent lesson guide is reproducible for homeschool families and small classrooms with under 10 students. Line-listed answer keys. Glossary included. NKJV Scripture used. Grades 10-12.

History of Sciences by J. Hudson Tiner

This engaging history of medicine covers some of the most important and life-saving remedies discovered, from ether and anesthesia to washing hands to discovering germs. Chapters focus on some of the most famous surgeons, doctors and scientists who discovered these principles; photos and interesting sidebar provide additional information. 161 indexed pages, softcover.

  1. Champions of Math
    John Hudson Tiner
    Master Books / 2000 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Champions of Invention
    John Hudson Tiner
    Master Books / 2000 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Exploring Planet Earth The Journey  of Discovery
    John Hudson Tiner
    Master Books / 2000 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Samuel F.B. Morse, Sower Series
    John Hudson Tiner
    Mott Media, LLC / 1987 / Trade Paperback
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Books on Inventions

  1. DK Super Readers Level 4 A World of  Technology
    DK Children (US Learning) / 2023 / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Big Book of Invisible  Technology: A Look At How Things Work For Kids
    Chloe Taylor
    Rockridge Press / 2020 / Trade Paperback
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  3. The Picture History of Great  Inventors
    Gillian Clements
    Beautiful Feet Books / 2002 / Trade Paperback
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  4. The History of the Computer: People,  Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World

Capstone Inventors Series

  1. Alexander Graham Bell and the  Telephone
    Jennifer Fandel
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
    Jessica Gunderson
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Louis Pasteur and Pasteurization
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Johann Gutenburg and the Printing  Press
    Tod Smith, Kay Melchisedech Olson
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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Gutsy Girls Science Biographies Series

  1. Gutsy Girls Go For Science:  Engineers
    Diane C. Taylor
    Nomad Press / 2019 / Hardcover
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  2. Gutsy Girls Go For Science:  Astronauts
    Alicia Z. Klepeis
    Nomad Press / 2019 / Hardcover
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    Diane C. Taylor
    Nomad Press / 2019 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Gutsy Girls Go For Science:  Astronauts
    Alicia Z. Klepeis
    Nomad Press / 2019 / Trade Paperback
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Alexander Graham Bell

  1. Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
    Bonnie Bader
    Grosset & Dunlap / 2013 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Alexander Graham Bell and the  Telephone
    Jennifer Fandel
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell's  Talking Machine
    Monica Kulling
    Random House Books for Young Readers / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Alexander Graham Bell #7: Master of  Sound - eBookThis product is an eBook
    Ann Hood
    Grosset & Dunlap / 2013 / ePub
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Albert Einstein

  1. Albert Einstein: Genius of the  Twentieth Century
    Patricia Lakin
    Aladdin / 2005 / Trade Paperback
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  2. I Am Albert Einstein
    Brad Meltzer, Christopher Eliopoulos
    Dial Press / 2014 / Hardcover
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  3. Who Was Albert Einstein?
    Jess Brallier
    Grosset & Dunlap / 2002 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Ideas and Opinions
    Albert Einstein, Alan Lightman
    Random House / 1994 / Hardcover
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Archimedes

  1. Archimedes and His Numbers:  Biography Books for Kids 9-12
    Baby Professor / 2017 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Archimedes: The Man Who Invented the  Death Ray
    Shoo Rayner
    Shoo Rayner / 2017 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Archimedes and the Door of Science
    Jeanne Bendick
    Bethlehem Books / 1997 / Trade Paperback
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  4. The Great Archimedes
    Mario Geymonat
    Baylor University Press / 2011 / Trade Paperback
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  1. Ben Franklin And The Magic Squares
    Frank Murphy
    Random House / 2001 / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Ben Franklin Book of Easy and  Incredible Experiments: Activities, Projects and Science Fun
    Lisa Jo Rudy, ed.; Cheryl Kirk Noll, illus.
    Wiley / 1995 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer
    Augusta Stevenson
    Aladdin / Trade Paperback
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  4. The Autobiography and Other Writings
    Benjamin Franklin
    Signet Classics / 2014 / Mass Paperback
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Galileo Galilei

  1. Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
    Peter Sis
    Square Fish / 2000 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Galileo Galilei: A Life From  Beginning to End
    Independently Published / 2017 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Selected Writings
    Galileo
    Oxford University Press / 2012 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Who Was Galileo?
    Patricia Brennan Demuth
    Grosset & Dunlap / Trade Paperback
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  1. George Washington Carver
    Dana Meachen Rau
    Children's Press / 2014 / Trade Paperback
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  2. George Washington Carver
    William J. Federer
    Amerisearch / 2002 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Who Was George Washington Carver?
    Jim Gigliotti, Nancy Harrison
    Grosset & Dunlap / 2015 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Heroes of History: George Washington  Carver Audiobook on CD

Henry Ford

  1. Eat My Dust!  Henry Ford's First  Race
    Monica Kulling
    Random House / 2004 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Who Was Henry Ford?
    Michael Burgan
    Penguin Workshop / 2014 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
    Hazel B. Aird, Catherine Ruddiman
    Aladdin / 1986 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Henry Ford Lapbook - PDF Download  [Download]This is a digital download product
    Cyndi Kinney
    Knowledge Box Central / 2013 / PDF Download
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Isaac Newton

  1. Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
    Andrea Gianopoulos
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Life of Sir Isaac Newton
    ASSU Publishers
    Attic Books / 2014 / Hardcover
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  3. Who Was Isaac Newton?
    Janet Pascal
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    Janet Pascal
    Penguin Workshop / 2014 / ePub
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Johannes Gutenberg

  1. If You Love Reading, Thank Johannes  Gutenberg!
    Baby Professor / 2017 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Johann Gutenburg and the Printing  Press
    Tod Smith, Kay Melchisedech Olson
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Fine Print: A Story about Johann  Gutenberg
    Joann Johansen Burch
    Lerner Classroom / 1991 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Who in the World Was the Secretive  Printer? The Story of Johannes Gutenberg
    Robert Beckham
    Well-Trained Mind Press / 2005 / Trade Paperback
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Kepler & Copernicus

  1. Johannes Kepler, Sower Series
    John Hudson Tiner
    Mott Media, LLC / 1977 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Sowers Series Audio Books: Johannes  Kepler
    Mott Media, LLC / Compact disc
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  3. Copernicus' Secret: How the  Scientific Revolution Began
    Jack Repcheck
    Simon & Schuster / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Science and Theology Since  Copernicus
    Peter Barrett
    Bloomsbury Academic / 2003 / Trade Paperback
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Leonardo da Vinci

  1. Leonardo Da Vinci: Extraordinary  Machines
    David Hawcock
    Dover Publications / 2019 / Hardcover
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    Brad Meltzer
    Dial Press / 2020 / Hardcover
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  3. Who Was Leonardo DaVinci
    Roberta Edwards
    Grosset & Dunlap / 2005 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Getting to Know the World's Greatest  Artists: Da Vinci
    Grolier Publishing Company / 2015 / Trade Paperback
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Louis Pasteur

  1. Louis Pasteur's Library: An  Unresolved Mystery
    Dr. Armond S. Goldman, Sarita B. Oertling, Robert O Marlin IV, Kelly Caldwell
    Ehdp Press / 2019 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Louis Pasteur Sower Series
    John Hudson Tiner
    Mott Media, LLC / 1991 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Louis Pasteur and Pasteurization
    Capstone Press / 2007 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes
    Beverly Birch, Christian Birmingham
    B.E.S. / 1996 / Trade Paperback
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Marie Curie

  1. Marie Curie: Little People, Big  Dreams
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
    Frances Lincoln LTD / 2017 / Hardcover
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  2. Madame Curie: A Biography
    Eve Curie
    Da Capo Press / 2001 / Trade Paperback
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  3. I am Marie Curie
    Brad Meltzer
    Dial Press / 2019 / Hardcover
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  4. Marie Curie and the Science of  Radioactivity
    Naomi Pasachoff
    Oxford University Press / 1997 / Trade Paperback
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Michael Faraday

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    Darcy Pattison
    Mims House / 2016 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Who Was Michael Faraday?
    Baby Professor / 2017 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Michael Faraday: Spiritual Dynamo,  Trail Blazers Series
    Derick Bingham
    Christian Focus / 2006 / Mass Paperback
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  4. Michael Faraday- Father of  Electronics
    Charles Ludwig
    Herald Press / 1988 / Trade Paperback
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Samuel Morse

  1. Samuel F.B. Morse, Sower Series
    John Hudson Tiner
    Mott Media, LLC / 1987 / Trade Paperback
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The Wright Brothers

  1. To Fly: Story of the Wright Brothers
    Wendie Old
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 2002 / Hardcover
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    David McCullough
    Simon & Schuster / 2015 / Hardcover
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  3. Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young  Fliers
    Augusta Stevenson, Robert Doremus
    Aladdin / 1986 / Trade Paperback
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  4. First Flight
    George Shea
    HarperCollins / 2003 / Trade Paperback
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Thomas Alva Edison

  1. The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva  Edison
    Raymond Arroyo
    ZonderKidz / 2023 / Hardcover
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  2. Getting to Know the World's Greatest  Inventors & Scientists: Thomas Edison
    Mike Venezia
    Children's Press / 2009 / Trade Paperback
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  3. DK Readers Level 4: Thomas Edison
    DK Children / Trade Paperback
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  4. Landmark Books: The Story of Thomas  Alva Edison
    Margaret Cousins
    Random House / 1993 / Trade Paperback
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A History of Science from Beautiful Feet Books

  1. History of Science Time Line
    Rea C Berg
    Beautiful Feet Books / 1999 / Other
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  2. A History of Science, Updated  Edition
    Rebecca Berg Manor
    Beautiful Feet Books / Trade Paperback
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  3. Beautiful Feet Books: Benjamin  Franklin
    Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
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  4. Along Came Galileo
    Jeanne Bendick
    Beautiful Feet Books / 1999 / Trade Paperback
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The Story of Inventions

  1. The Story of Inventions, Second  Edition, Grade 6
    Frank P. Bachman
    Christian Liberty Press / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Story of Inventions, Second  Edition Test Packet
    Frank P. Bachman
    Christian Liberty Press / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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  3. The Story of Inventions, Second  Edition, Answer Key, Grade 6
    Frank P. Bachman
    Christian Liberty Press / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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