Inventors: Profiles in Canadian Genius
- ISBN-10
- 0920656951
- ISBN-13
- 9780920656952
- Series
- Inventors
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-01-01
- Publisher
- Camden East, Ont. : Camden House Publishing
- Author
- Thomas Carpenter
Description
Discusses the lives and contributions of Abraham Gesner, Sandford Fleming, Georges-Edouard Desbarats and William Leggo, Mabel Bell and the Aerial Experiment Association, Thomas Wilson, Reginald Fessenden, William Stephenson, and J. Armand Bombardier.
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