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Evans, Harold.
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Inventors -- United States -- History
Inventions -- United States -- History.
Technology -- United States -- History.
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Evans, Harold.
Inventors -- United States -- History
Inventions -- United States -- History.
Technology -- United States -- History.
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They made America : from the steam engine to the search engine : two centuries of innovators / Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland and David Lefer.
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Evans, Harold.
Little, Brown, 2004.
Call #:
609
.2773
E92t
Subjects
Inventors -- United States -- History
Inventions -- United States -- History.
Technology -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
0316277665
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Notes:
Accompanies the WGBH television series of the same name.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-481) and index.
Contents:
America's genius for innovation -- pt. I. Pathfinders to a new civilization -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. Digital age -- 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.
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Buckland, Gail.
Lefer, David.
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