Bibliograph

Pioneers of the Industrial Age, breakthroughs in technology, edited by Sherman Hollar

Type

Label

Pioneers of the Industrial Age, breakthroughs in technology, edited by Sherman Hollar

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pioneers of the Industrial Age

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

779874132

Responsibility statement

edited by Sherman Hollar

Series statement

Inventors and innovators

Sub title

breakthroughs in technology

Summary

This volume profiles a number of the minds behind some of history's greatest industrial advances, including Robert Fulton, Margaret Knight, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. --from publisher description

Table Of Contents

John Kay -- James Hargreaves -- Richard Arkwright -- James Watt -- Edmund Cartwright -- Samuel Crompton -- Robert Fulton -- Eli Whitney -- Samuel Slater -- The Stephenson Family -- George Stephenson -- Robert Stephenson -- George Robert Stephenson -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- Cyrus Hall Mccormick -- Elias Howe -- Andrew Carnegie -- Margaret E. Knight -- John D. Rockefeller -- Elijah Mccoy -- George Westinghouse -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Early life and career -- Menlo Park -- The phonograph -- The electric lightbulb -- "Invention factory" in West Orange -- Later years -- Nikola Tesla -- Henry Ford -- Charles Martin Hall -- George Washington Carver -- The Wright brothers -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Lee de Forest -- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney

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