Follows the life and career of the man who revolutionized photography by developing a camera simple enough for anyone to use.

A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.

Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable music.

A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad.

Traces the life of the Black woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest.

A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.

A biography of the Australian nurse who developed a successful method of treating and rehabilitating polio patients and persisted in the struggle, despite ridicule and opposition, to have her methods accepted.

Recounts the life and accomplishments of the first woman astronomer in America.

Recounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type.

A biography of Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the American home economics movement, and first professional woman chemist.