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

Name: They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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ISBN: 9780316013857

ISBN-10: 0316013854

ISBN-13: 9780316013857

Edition: 2006

Authors: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer

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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 692
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.13" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.660
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 Got America Going


First steamboat



Successful steamboat services



High-pressure steam engine



The cotton gin to the machine age



A mass market



The telegraph



American big business



First successful American multinational



Vulcanized rubber



Drilling for oil



Blue jeans



The safety elevator



Credit rating



Transcontinental railway




America Takes Off


Adventurous Men Unite a Continent



Inventors


Science of innovation



Plastic



Wings



Gas mask



Modern radio




Democratizers


The people's car



The Kodak



Self-made American businesswoman



The people's banker



Retail franchise network



Jet age



Venture capital




Empire Builders


Maidenform bra tycoon



Cheap electricity for all



Television



Entertainment empire



IBM



Godfather of IBM



Mainframe computers



Minicomputers



Cosmetics company



Containers



Polaroid



Barbie




The Digital Age


The Electronic Elves of Silicon Valley


PC software



Apple



Microsoft



Biotech industry



CNN, 24-hour electronic news



MRI scanner



Google



Ten Lessons


Innovators Gallery


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Index