Tom Tucker
Auteur van Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors
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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 toon meer Carolina with his family toon minder
Werken van Tom Tucker
Decision on the Campus 3 exemplaren
"Hi, Mark" 2 exemplaren
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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… (meer)