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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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Main Author: Evans, Harold, 1928-2020
Other Authors: Buckland, Gail, Lefer, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown, [2004]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Inventors > United States > History.
Inventions > United States > History.

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505 0 0 |t America's genius for innovation --  |g PART I :  |t PATHFINDERS TO A NEW CIVILIZATION : THE HEROES WHO GOT AMERICA GOING:  |t John Fitch : first steamboat --  |t Robert Fulton : successful steamboat services --  |t Oliver Evans : high-pressure steam engine --  |t Henry Miller Shreve : freed the waterways --  |g The  |t steamboat war : liberating business --  |t Eli Whitney : the cotton gin to the machine age --  |t Samuel Slater : dressing America --  |t Francis Cabot Lowell : the Lowell girls --  |t Sam Colt : a mass market --  |t Samuel Finley Breese Morse : the telegraph --  |t Cyrus McCormick : American big business --  |t Isaac Merritt Singer : first successful American multinational --  |t Charles Goodyear : vulcanized rubber --  |t Albert Augustus Pope : democracy on wheels --  |t Edwin Drake : drilling for oil --  |t Levi Strauss : blue jeans --  |t Elisha Otis : the safety elevator --  |t Lewis Tappan : credit rating --  |t Theodore Dehone Judah : transcontinental railway --  |g PART II :  |t AMERICA TAKES OFF : ADVENTUROUS MEN UNITE A CONTINENT:  |g Section I :  |t Inventors --  |t Thomas Alva Edison : science of innovation --  |t Leo Hendrik Baekeland : plastic --  |t Wilbur and Orville Wright : wings --  |t Garrett Augustus Morgan : gas mask --  |t Edwin Howard Armstrong : modern radio --  |g Section II :  |t Democratizers --  |t Henry Ford : the people's car --  |t Ford's loneliest hour : George Selden's patent --  |t George Eastman : the Kodak --  |t Sarah Breedlove Walker : self-made American businesswoman --  |t Amadeo Peter Giannini : the people's banker --  |t Martha Matilda Harper : retail franchise network --  |t Raymond "Pappy" Ingram Smith : chance --  |t Juan Terry Trippe : jet age --  |t General Georges Doriot : venture capital --  |g Section III :  |t Empire builders --  |t Ida Rosenthal : Maidenform Bra tycoon --  |t Samuel Insull : cheap electricity for all --  |t Philo T. Farnsworth : television --  |t Walt Disney : entertainment empire --  |t Jean Nidetch : Weight Watchers clubs --  |t Thomas Watson : IBM --  |t Thomas Watson Jr. : mainframe computers --  |t Estee Lauder : cosmetics company --  |t Malcom McLean : containers, luxury travel --  |t Edwin Land : Polaroid --  |t Ruth Handler : Barbie --  |g PART III : THE  |t DIGITAL AGE : THE ELECTRONIC ELVES OF SILICON VALLEY:  |t Gary Kildall : PC software --  |t Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson : biotech industry --  |t Ted Turner : CCN, 24-hour electronic news --  |t Joan Ganz Cooney : Sesame Street --  |t Raymond Damadian : MRI scanner --  |t Russell Simmons : marketing maestro of hip-hop --  |t Pierre Omidyar : eBay --  |t Larry Page and Sergey Brin : Google. 
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