| Description |
ix, 437 pages : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 431-432. |
| Contents |
The boundaries of America -- Trades in America -- The natural philosophers -- Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford -- The honest heretic, Joseph Priestley -- From despair to Yankee brag in forty years -- Surveyors of a continent -- Surveyor of the sea -- The men who invented themselves -- The atmosphereic steam engine -- Oliver Evans -- Engineering dynasty -- Robert Fulton -- The Erie Canal -- Eli Whitney -- The first successsful factory -- Lowell Mills -- American perfectibility -- The United States and adjoining territories in the 1820's -- The naturalists -- William Beaumont -- Anesthesia -- Joseph Henry -- Yankee invention and the American myth -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- The sewing machine -- The reaper and the singing plow -- American engineering -- The steam engine rail road -- Clipper ships -- Forge, pan and Derrick -- The Atlantic cable -- The war telegraph -- The balloonists -- Ordnance -- Iron ships of war -- Torpedo warfare -- The centennial -- George Mortimer Pullman -- The refigerator car -- The million-acre farm -- The age of the machine -- The machine to replace the pen -- George Westinghouse -- Photography -- Astronomy -- Alexander Graham Bell -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- J. Willard Gibbs -- A.A. Michelson -- The horseless carriage -- Robert A. Millikan -- The Wright brothers -- George Ellery Hale -- Lee De Forest -- Irving Langmuir -- The chemical industry -- Electronics -- The second industrial revolution -- Nucleonics -- The chain reaction -- The twentieth century: the halfway mark. |
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Science -- History.
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Inventions -- History.
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Science -- Pictorial works.
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Inventions -- Pictorial works.
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