| For four centuries Bostonian innovators have been making people's lives better and making the world a safer and better place.From Cotton Mather who helped fight smallpox to Phyllis Wheatley and Alexander Graham Bell, Boston has been a place of inventions and forward thinking. |
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Since the beginnings of the city in 1630, Boston has been a hub of new ideas that have led America and the world in new directions. Innovations have ranged from the smallpox vaccine to the invention of the telephone. Even toll-house cookies and personal computers got their start in Boston.
Photos, paintings, and engravings--and lots of cool facts--bring to life some of the people, places, and events that changed the course of history.---from the publisher
32 pages 978-1580893114 Ages 5-8
Keywords: inventions, American history, inventors, narrative nonfiction, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old
