TY - BOOK AU - Vanderbilt,Byron Michael TI - Inventing: how the masters did it SN - 0877160546 [hardbound] PY - 1974/// CY - Durham, N.C. PB - Moore Pub. Co. KW - Inventors KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: 1 Charles Goodyear -- 2 Alexander Graham Bell -- 3 Thomas Alva Edison -- 4 George Westinghouse -- 5 Edward Goodrich Acheson -- 6 Alfred Bernhard Nobel -- 7 Backgrounds, personal characteristics, and research methods -- 8 Investors and the patent office -- 9 Invention: past , present, future references and appendices index ER -