They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Seach Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

Name: They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Seach Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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ISBN: 9780316277662

ISBN-10: 0316277665

ISBN-13: 9780316277662

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gail Buckland, Harold Evans, David Lefer

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This title provides an illustrated history of American innovators, some well known, some unknown, by the author of 'The American Century'.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.25" long x 1.63" tall
Weight: 4.994
Language: English

From 1997 to 1999, Harold Evans was Editorial Director and Vice Chairman of U.S. News and World Report, the New York Daily News, and Fast Company. He was President and Publisher of the Random House Trade Group from 1990 to 1997. He lives in New York City.



America's Genius for Innovation



Pathfinders to a New Civilization


The Heroes Who Gotamerica going


First steamboat



Successful steamboat services



High-pressure steam engine



Freed the waterways



Liberating business



The cotton gin to the machine age



Dressing America



The Lowell girls



A mass market



The telegraph



American big business



First successful American multinational



Vulcanized rubber



Albert Augustus Pope: Democracy on Wheels


Drilling for oil



Blue jeans



The safety elevator



Credit rating



Transcontinental railway



The Big Four: Collis Potter Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins



America Takes Off


Adventurous Men Unite a Continent



Inventors


Science of innovation



Plastic



Wings



Gas mask



Modern radio



Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, Lee de Forest, Michael Pupin



Democratizers


The people's car



George Selden's patent



The Kodak



Self-made American businesswoman



The people's banker



Retail franchise network



Chance



Jet age



Donald Calvin Burr: The People Express Pioneer


Venture capital




Empire Builders


Maidenform Bra tycoon



The Blow Against the Corset: Caresse Crosby


Cheap electricity for all



Television



Entertainment empire



Weight Watchers clubs



IBM



Herman Hollerith, John Patterson


Mainframe computers



Ken Olsen: Minicomputers


Cosmetics company



Containers, luxury travel



Jim Sherwood


Polaroid



Barbie




The Digital Age


The Electronic Elves of Silicon Valley


PC software



Bill Gates, Steve Jobs


Biotech industry



CNN, 24-hour electronic news



Sesame Street



MRI scanner



Marketing maestro of hip-hop



eBay



Google



Ten Lessons


Innovators Gallery


Selected Bibliography


Index


Illustration Credits


Biographies