An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items.
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
Traces the life of the nineteenthcentury English woman who followed her calling to work in hospitals and improve the conditions under which the sick were treated.