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The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers who Transformed America, Trade
ISBN: 978-0-471-14026-9
Hardcover
256 pages
April 1996
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IRON, STEAM, AND EARLY INDUSTRY, 1776-1855.

Modern Engineering and the Transformation of America.

Watt, Telford, and the British Beginnings.

Fulton's Steamboat and the Mississippi.

Lowell and the American Industrial Revolution.

Francis and the Industrial Power Network.

CROSSING THE CONTINENT, 1830-1883.

The Stephensons, Thomson, and the Eastern Railroads.

Henry Morse, and the Telegraph.

St.

Louis versus Chicago and the Continental Railroads.

Carnegie and the Climax of Steel.

Edison and the Network for Light.

The Centennial Revolutions, 1876-1883.

Notes and References.

Index.

Problems.