Pioneers of the Industrial Age breakthroughs in technology / edited by Sherman Hollar.

Other author Hollar, Sherman.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,
Description127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesInventors and innovators
Contents John Kay -- James Hargreaves -- Richard Arkwright -- James Watt -- Edmund Cartwright -- Samuel Crompton -- Robert Fulton -- Eli Whitney -- Samuel Slater -- The Stephenson Family -- George Stephenson -- Robert Stephenson -- George Robert Stephenson -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- Cyrus Hall Mccormick -- Elias Howe -- Andrew Carnegie -- Margaret E. Knight -- John D. Rockefeller -- Elijah Mccoy -- George Westinghouse -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Early life and career -- Menlo Park -- The phonograph -- The electric lightbulb -- "Invention factory" in West Orange -- Later years -- Nikola Tesla -- Henry Ford -- Charles Martin Hall -- George Washington Carver -- The Wright brothers -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Lee de Forest -- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012005541
ISBN9781615306961 (library binding)

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