The Story of Science in America is a 1967 science book by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Burmese and French. Summary The book traces the work of inventors and naturalists in the United States from the Colonial era through the mid-19th century, and relates scientific developments in the century following. Contents Part One - Science Comes to America I - Science in the Colonies II - Benjamin Franklin's Century III - American Explorers and Expeditions IV - The World of Nature V - Early Inventors and Inventions VI - The Great Industrial Revolution Part Two - The Physical Sciences VII - The Exact Sciences VIII - The Sky Above IX - The Earth and its Waters X - The Revolution in Physics Part Three - The Biological Sciences XI - The Sciences of Life XII - The Most Marvelous Machine XIII - The Sciences of Man Part Four - The Applied Sciences XIV - The Electrical Revolution XV - The Internal-Combustion Revolution XVI - The Dangerous Depths of Space XVII - Scientists of Today and Tomorrow Notes Selected Bibliography Index Reception Critical response to the book was positive. Jane E. Brody, writing for The New York Times, called it "a fast-moving, informative and thoroughly enjoyable chronicle, with amusing anecdotes, legends and interesting sidelights that reflect the personalities, lives and times of the men who shaped our nation scientifically." She noted that "the authors have kept their writing free of chauvinism," and that "[m]ost of the scientific concepts are well enough explained so that even the newcomer to science should be able to grasp at least the essence of them." In the same issue the book was included among seventy-five recommended titles selected by the Children's Editor of the newspaper's Book Review, described as an "[i]nformative, thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of the development of science in our country." Publishers' Weekly stated that "[t]o read the index ... is to read the names of the men and of their discoveries in science in America, from the earliest days ... to the space age. To read the book is to become familiar with the men and their contributions to science." George Basalia, writing for Library Journal, called the book "a first-rate history of American science and technology for high-school students ... cover[ing] major