An edition of They made America
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They made America
1st ed.
by Harold Evans
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"The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who used windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind America's preeminence. But there is more to this extraordinary history. Harold Evans traces how the innovators have time and again proved to be democratizers, driven not by greed but by an ambition to be remembered. They translated the nation's political ideals into economic reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Inventions, Inventors, Antiquarian, Nonfiction, Inventions, history, Inventeurs, Histoire, Erfindung, ErfinderPlaces
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They Made America
2009, Little, Brown and Company
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Table of Contents
America's genius for innovation
pt. I. Pathfinders to a new civilization
The heroes who got America going
John Fitch : first steamboat
Robert Fulton : successful steamboat services
Oliver Evans : high-pressure steam engine
Henry Miller Shreve : freed the waterways
The steamboat war : liberating business
Eli Whitney : the cotton gin to the machine age
Samuel Slater : dressing America
Francis Cabot Lowell : the Lowell girls
Sam Colt : a mass market
Samuel Finley Breese Morse : the telegraph
Cyrus McCormick : American big business
Isaac Merritt Singer : first successful American multinational
Charles Goodyear : vulcanized rubber
Albert Augustus Pope : democracy on wheels
Edwin Drake : drilling for oil
Levi Strauss : blue jeans
Elisha Otis : the safety elevator
Lewis Tappan : credit rating
Theodore Dehone Judah : transcontinental railway
The big four : Collis Potter Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins
pt. II. America takes off
Adventurous men unite a continent
section I: Inventors
Thomas Alva Edison : science of innovation
Leo Hendrik Baekeland : plastic
Wilbur and Orville Wright : wings
Garrett Augustus Morgan : gas mask
Edwin Howard Armstrong : modern radio
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, Lee de Forest, Michael Pupin
section II: Democratizers
Henry Ford : the people's car
Ford's loneliest hour : George Selden's patent
George Eastman : the Kodak
Sarah Breedlove Walker : self-made American businesswoman
Amadeo Peter Giannini : the people's banker
Martha Matilda Harper : retail franchise network
Raymond "Pappy" Ingram Smith : chance
Juan Terry Trippe : jet age
Donald Calvin Burr : the People Express pioneer
General Georges Doriot : venture capital
section III: Empire builders
Ida Rosenthal : Maidenform Bra tycoon
The blow against the corset : Caresse Crosby
Samuel Insull : cheap electricity for all
Philo T. Farnsworth : television
Walt Disney : entertainment empire
Jean Nidetch : Weight Watchers clubs
Thomas Watson : IBM
Herman Hollerith, John Patterson
Thomas Watson Jr. : mainframe computers
Ken Olsen : minicomputers
Estee Lauder : cosmetics company
Malcom McLean : containers, luxury travel
Jim Sherwood
Edwin Land : Polaroid
Ruth Handler : Barbie
pt. III. The digital age
The electronic elves of Silicon Valley
Gary Kildall : PC software
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs
Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson : biotech industry
Ted Turner : CCN, 24-hour electronic news
Joan Ganz Cooney : Sesame Street
Raymond Damadian : MRI scanner
Russell Simmons : marketing maestro of hip-hop
Pierre Omidyar : eBay
Larry Page and Sergey Brin : Google
Ten lessons
Innovators gallery.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-481) and index.
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An illustrated history of American innovators--some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating-- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.
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