Enterprise & innovation in the Pikes Peak Region
By: edited by Tim Blevins ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pikes Peak Library District; Dream City Vision 2020; Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium (7th 2010: Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Series: Regional history series; Regional history series (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District with Dream City Vision 2020
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Colorado Springs, Colo.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781567353020
Subjects: Business enterprises; High technology; Inventions; Inventors; Biography; History
Notes: Includes papers presented at the 2010 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dream City Vision 2020; title: El Paso County inventors & their 19th-century patents / Dennis Daily; title: Transits, timbers, & tunnels : the legacy of Colorado inventor David W. Brunton / Ginny Kilander; title: The transmission of electric energy without wires / Nikola Tesla; title: Bumps in the road : the spirit of enterprise & the Sociability Tour of 1914 / Katie Rudolph; title: The quest for the best : William Jackson Palmer, 1836-1909 / Donald McGilchrist; title: Aeronautics & astronautics : pioneering air & space business in the Pikes Peak Region / Rick W. Sturdevant; title: Hustling the tourists : early automobile sightseeing in the Pikes Peak Region / Judith R. Finley; title: The Hassell Iron Works / Elaine Freed; title: Science as enterprise & industry : the Monument Valley Park "Geological Section" in context / Steve Ruskin; title: From prize-fights to Shakespeare : traveling entertainers in the Pikes Peak Region / Beth R. Barrett; title: Mining for interest in the First National Bank of Cripple Creek collection / Amy Ziegler; title: Chasing the American dream : Fannie Mae Duncan & the Cotton Club / Kathleen F. Esmiol; title: Ballroom & the barn : Dr. Lloyd Shaw, Dean Edwards & the western square dance revival in Colorado Springs / Traci West; title: Marketing a messiah : Denver's divine healer & his inspiration of entrepreneurs / Tim Blevins.