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Dr. James Naismith was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both
...71) The Chunnel
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"Describes the struggles and accomplishments in building The Chunnel which connects England and France, traveling beneath the English Channel. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading"--Provided by publisher.
72) The Hoover Dam
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"Describes the struggles and accomplishments in building the Hoover Dam. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading"--Provided by publisher.
75) The Panama Canal
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"Describes the struggles and accomplishments in building the Panama Canal. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading"--
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Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was left to her own devices to raise their eleven children. Eventually, she was hired by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to improve kitchen design, which...
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Shares the inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, whose incredible safety hood became a forerunner to the gas masks that saved thousands of soldiers during World War I.
In 1911, 146 workers died in the shocking Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Morgan decided to invent a safety hood for firefighters-- but people weren't interested in buying his safety hood when they discovered its inventor was black. When...
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