Always Inventing

This photobiography traces the life of Alexander Graham Bell, a restless inventor whose curiosity never let up. Quotations from Bell himself carry the narrative, letting young readers hear his voice as they follow his work. The School Library Journal named it a Best Book of the Year.

Bell's inventive streak started early. At eleven he built a device for separating the husks from wheat kernels, and the ideas kept coming for the rest of his life. The story moves through decades of experiments up to a hydrofoil patent granted sixty-four years after that first creation.

The book includes more than seventy period photographs and drawings taken from Bell's own notebooks. A foreword by Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Bell's great-grandson, opens the volume. Bell also helped found the National Geographic Society, a connection that ties the story to the publisher's own history.