Tom Tucker
Autor/a de Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors
Sobre l'autor
Tom Tucker is an award-winning author who writes often about the history of invention. His most recent publication, The Eclipse Project, was issued by NASA, the result of a fellowship administered by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and Stanford University. He lives in Rutherfordton, North mostra'n més Carolina with his family mostra'n menys
Obres de Tom Tucker
Decision on the Campus 3 exemplars
"Hi, Mark" 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
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Ressenyes
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Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 8
- Membres
- 249
- Popularitat
- #91,698
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 20
- Llengües
- 1
The author seems inclined to freely criticize , not just Franklin, but others who appear here and there in the narrative.
He “picks on” John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Buffon, among others and presents Joseph Priestley as if he were a complete nincompoop …. he wasn’t.
Anyway, while the central theory of the book may have been a bit light, Franklin’s kite experiment was a hoax and may have led to the U. s. Becoming a nation, the story is told well enough to hold interest and is entertaining… (més)