Amazon | Rick Beyer is a lifelong history enthusiast and an award-winning documentary producer whose work for The History Channel® includes Godspeed to Jamestown, The Wright Challenge, and the Timelab 2000 series of history minutes.

100 tales of invention and discovery:

• Meet the angry undertaker who gave us the push-button phone.
• Discover how modesty led to the invention of the stethoscope.
• Find out why Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator.
• Learn how a train full of trumpeters made science history.
• The frustrated fashion designer who created the space suit?
• The gun-toting newspaperman who invented the parking meter?
• The midnight dreams that led to a Nobel Prize?