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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.
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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
