Author: Lyon Sprague De CampPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The story of thirty-two men who made the modern American era.
The Heroic Age of American Invention
Author: Lyon Sprague De CampPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The story of thirty-two men who made the modern American era.
The Heroic Age of American Invention
Author: Lyon Sprague De CampPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The story of thirty-two men who made the modern American era.
John D. Rockefeller; the heroic age of American enterprise
Author: Allan NevinsA Popular History of American Invention
Author: Waldemar KaempffertTechnology in Early America
Author: Brooke HindlePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838640
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
American Musicals in Context
Author: Thomas A. GreenfieldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical. With the hit musical Hamilton (2015) captivating audiences and reshaping the way early U.S. history is taught and written about, this book offers insight into an array of musicals that explore U.S. history. The work provides a synopsis, overview of critical and audience reception, and historical context and analysis for each of 20 musicals selected for the unique and illuminating way they present the American story on the stage. Specifically, this volume explores musicals that have centered their themes, characters, and plots on some aspect of America's complex and ever-changing history. Each in its own way helps us rediscover pivotal national crises, key political decisions, defining moral choices, unspeakable and unresolved injustices, important and untold stories, defeats suffered, victories won in the face of monumental adversity, and the sacrifices borne publicly and privately in the process of creating the American narrative, one story at a time. Students will come away from the volume armed with the critical thinking skills necessary to discern fact from fiction in U.S. history.
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Author: Eric S. HintzPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262365715
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created entirely new industries while achieving widespread fame. However, by 1927, a New York Times editorial suggested that teams of corporate scientists at General Electric, AT&T, and DuPont had replaced the solitary "garret inventor" as the wellspring of invention. But these inventors never disappeared. In this book, Eric Hintz argues that lesser-known inventors such as Chester Carlson (Xerox photocopier), Samuel Ruben (Duracell batteries), and Earl Tupper (Tupperware) continued to develop important technologies throughout the twentieth century. Moreover, Hintz explains how independent inventors gradually fell from public view as corporate brands increasingly became associated with high-tech innovation. Focusing on the years from 1890 to 1950, Hintz documents how American independent inventors competed (and sometimes partnered) with their corporate rivals, adopted a variety of flexible commercialization strategies, established a series of short-lived professional groups, lobbied for fairer patent laws, and mobilized for two world wars. After 1950, the experiences of independent inventors generally mirrored the patterns of their predecessors, and they continued to be overshadowed during corporate R&D's postwar golden age. The independents enjoyed a resurgence, however, at the turn of the twenty-first century, as Apple's Steve Jobs and Shark Tank's Lori Greiner heralded a new generation of heroic inventor-entrepreneurs. By recovering the stories of a group once considered extinct, Hintz shows that independent inventors have long been—and remain—an important source of new technologies.
The Age of Invention
Author: Holland ThompsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781500423902
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This classic text outlines the personalities and achievements of several great American inventors and indicates the significance of their achievements.
America in the Age of the Titans
Author: Sean Dennis CashmanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814772064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an emphases on leading personalities and anecdotes about them. Sean Dennis Cashman's sequesl to America in the Gilded Age gives special attention to industry and inventions, and social and cultural history. He covers developments in science, technology, and industry; the Progressive movement and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, immigration, the new woman, and labor, including the Industrial Workers of the World and the Great Red Scare; the transportation and communications revolution in radio and motion pictures; the cultural contribuation of artists, architects, and creatice writers; and America's foreign policies across the world. Written in a lively, accessible style with over sixty illustrations, this book is an excellent introduction to these momentous years. It provides an assessment of the contributions of the titans - political, scientific, and industrial.
A Popular History of American Invention
Author: Waldemar Bernhard KaempffertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404119225
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description