Part 1: Pathfinders to new civilization

Part 2: America takes off

Section I: Inventors

Section II: Democratizers

Section III: Empire builders

Part 3: The digital age

Relive the inventions, business battle and creations that define America and the industrial age.  See how PC software, wind shield wipers and credit card were invented by people with shear vision and drive.  Inventions and startups of the past is kept alive in this great book. Many details about invention and startup you can not find anywhere else is recorded here.  It is a great book to learn from past masters how to startup a business.  Such stories are always the same, never old.  To build new, you just need to repeat the old ways of entrepreneurship.

1. Genius for innovation
   
   Part one path finders to the new civilization
   
   The heroes who got America going
   John Fitch first steamboat
   Robert Fulton successful steamboat services
   Oliver Evans high-pressure steam engine
   Harry Miller Shreve Freed the waterways
   The steamboat war liberating business
   Eli Whitney the cotton gin to the machine eight
   Samuel Slater dressing America
   Francis Cabot Lowell  Lowell girls
   Sam Colt a mass market
   Samuel Philly Reese Morse the telegraph
   Cyrus McCormick American big business
   Isaac Singer first successful American multinational
   Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber
   Edwin Drake drilling for oil
   Levi Strauss Blue jeans
   Eliza Otis the safety elevator
   Lewis Tappan Credit rating
   Theodore Judah transcontinental railway
   
   Part two American takeoff
   
   Section one inventors
   Thomas Edison science of invention
   Leo Baekeland plastic
   Wilbur and Orville Wright wings
   Garrett Morgan gas mask
   Edwin Armstrong  modern radio
   Section 2 Democratizers
   
   Harry Ford the People's car
   Ford’s Lonelist Hour George Sheldon's patent
   Jordan Eastman the Kodak
   Sarah Walker self-made American businesswoman
   Amadeo Peter Gianni the peoples banker
   Martha Harper retail franchise network
   Raymond Pepe Ingram Smith chance
   Juan Terry Treppe jet age
   Theodore George Doriot venture capital
   
   Sections 3 empire builders
   Ida Rosenthal Maidenform bra
   Samuel Insull cheap electricity for all
   Philo Farnsworth television
   Walter Disney entertainment empire
   Jean Nidetch weight watcher clubs
   Thomas Watson IBM
   Thomas Watson Junior mainframe computers
   Estee Lauder cosmetic company
   Malcolm McLean  Containers, Luxury Travel
   Edwin Land Polaroid
   Rose Handler  Barbie
   
   Part III The digital age
   Gary Kildall, PC software
   Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson Biotech industry
   Ted Turner CNN 24 hour news
   Joan Cooney Sesame Street
   Raymond Damadian MRI scanner
   Russell Simons marketing masters of hip-hop
   Pierre Omidyar eBay
   Larry page and Serge Brin Google