They made America : from the steam engine to the search engine : two centuries of innovators /
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New York :
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown,
2006.
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| Edition: | First Back Bay paperback edition. |
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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 : CNN, 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.