Description
Before a diamond is a gem, it’s a common gray rock called graphite. Through an intense trial of heat and pressure, it changes into one of the most valuable stones in the world.
Before Tracy Hall was an inventor, he was a boy—born into poverty, bullied by peers, forced to work at an early age. However, through education and experimentation, he became one of the brightest innovators of the twentieth century, eventually building a revolutionary machine that makes diamonds.
This book introduces 2 parallel stories: “A rock named graphite and A boy named Tracy.”
One of Tracy’s favorite Thomas Edison quotes was “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” Tracy believed in the power of hard work and the idea that sometimes the most amazing discoveries ore made on the twentieth or one hundred twentieth try. After all, ifs persistence in the face of heat and pressure that transforms crumbly graphite into a stone of lasting beauty and strength.
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