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Inventors and Inventions. Ed. by Alvin K. Benson. Hackensack, N.J.: Salem, 2010. 4 vols, acid-free $395 (ISBN 978-1-58765522-7).
This encyclopedia set adds to the Great Lives from History series from Salem Press begun in 2004, and it is meant to provide more detailed biographical information of historical figures. These four volumes cover 409 inventers and their most important inventions in extensive detail. Each essay gives in-depth information on the life and work of an inventor, along with a sidebar expanding on a particular invention and its place in history. These sidebars, concise and very well written, explain the invention in an easy-to-understand manner. Although mostly for high school and junior college students, the ease of understanding...