📚 Inventors

Books with inventors on their catalogue record, first published between 1841 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject inventors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,994 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Time For Kids	Editors Of Time For Kids	2005	51
	Elon Musk	Ashlee Vance	2013	34
	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	William Kamkwamba	2009	23
	My Inventions	Nikola Tesla	2010	21
	From immigrant to inventor	Michael Idvorsky Pupin	1923	20
	Memoir Of The Most Eminent American Mechanics	Henry Howe	1841	17
	Benjamin Franklin	Walter Isaacson	2003	17
	My inventions	Nikola Tesla	1977	16
	Edison a Biography	Josephson, Matthew	1959	15
	Inventors	Philip Gengembre Hubert	1893	13
	Edison	Frank Lewis Dyer	1910	13
	Dictionary of inventions and discoveries	Ernest Frank Carter	1966	13
	Thomas Alva Edison, an intimate record	Francis Arthur Jones	1907	12
	Tesla	Margaret Cheney	1981	12
	Black pioneers of science and invention	Louis Haber	1970	10
	Mothers of invention	Ethlie Ann Vare	1988	8
	Outward Dreams	James Haskins	1991	8
	A Head Full of Notions	Andy Russell Bowen	1996	7
	How We Got to Now	Steven Johnson	2014	7
	The picture history of great inventors	Gillian Clements	1993	6
	The Kenneth Roberts reader	Roberts, Kenneth Lewis	1945	5
	Men who changed the world	Egon Larsen	1952	5
	The Money Masters	John Train	1980	5
	So You Want to Be an Inventor?	Judith St George	2002	5
	Edison	George Sands Bryan	1926	4
	Black inventors of America	McKinley Burt	1969	4
	Inventions	Peter Turvey	1992	4
	The real McCoy	Wendy Towle	1993	4
	Girls Think of Everything	Catherine Thimmesh	2000	4
	Practical Electronics for Inventors	Paul Scherz	2000	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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