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1) Primer
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in this critically acclaimed film about two young engineers and the consequences they face when they invent a machine that enables them to travel back in time.
2) Paycheck
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Raye Montague was an ambitious little girl in segregated Little Rock. She grew to be a woman who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she could become the person and professional she aspired to be. Where some saw roadblocks, Montague only saw hurdles that needed to be overcome. Her mindset helped her become the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer, using a program she worked late...
4) Lone eagle
Author
Formats
Description
From the moment beautiful, enormously poised 17-year old Bostonian Kate Jamison meets handsome, much older Joe Allbright just before Pearl Haror at a debutante party, she's desperately in love. Joe is smitten, too, but he is deeply committed to his career as a polot he's already an ace, associated with Lindbergh.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest, " which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Edith Clarke devoured numbers, puzzles, and brainteasers and dreamed of how mathematics could modernize America in the brand-new 20th century. Fascinated by electricity, Edith earned a degree in electrical engineering, but no one would hire a woman. So, on her own, she tackled a daunting problem: the hundreds of calculations needed to design electrical wires. ---
7) Rusty Rivets
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Whether it's an out-of-control robo-vacuum, a band of fugitive monkeys, or a runaway hot air balloon, Rusty will find the fix! Rusty's got the ingenuity, creativity, and a recycling yard full of the coolest parts and pieces to 'Combine and Design' any gadget, vehicle, or robot that his wild imagination can think up.
8) Engineers
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Early readers will learn how some engineers build roads and bridges. This title highlights what engineers do, where they work, and how they help the community."--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In the early 1920s Jarvis Elliott is trying to build a railroad through Gateway Pass in the Rockies while his daughter Joyce pursues a romance with Ordway, her father's enemy. After Jarvis is injured, Bob Hallock, a clean cut young engineer working, shoulders the responsibilities for completing the project and Joyce joins the struggle against Ordway's underhanded methods"--
10) Underwater
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A crew of aquatic researchers works to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Tech is everywhere! Learn more about the innovators who created the technology world. These innovators are women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ready to be recognized"--
13) The wind rises
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
14) Future engineer
Author
Series
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This board book shows how the babies of today could become the engineers of tomorrow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An uplifting portrait of a leading NASA engineer describes her childhood ambition to pursue a life in science, her achievement as her university's first woman to receive a Ph. D. in her field and her pivotal role in building history-making spacecraft. --Publsiher's description.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Under One Roof: An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell - a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone. -- Stuck with You: A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry - and love - to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. -- Below Zero: A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded...
18) Puzzle master
Author
Series
Hello neighbor volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Aaron Peterson knows there's nothing he can do about Lucy Yi, but she's all he can think about -- and even if he could stop, there's newspaper articles and rallies to bring his attention back to the lastest tragic accident due to his father.
Author
Series
Amazing scientists volume 3
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a rhyming-text picture book about Raye Montague. After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed...
Series
Strange Angel volume 1
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Jack Parsons is a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable...
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