Dayton's children
Subtitle: the unlikely gang who brought us aviation, 'the Cash' and the keys to the road ahead
By: by Mark Martel, Mark Bernstein, Kate Hagenbuch Martel, Lauren Heaton, Charles O. Adams, John Janning
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781499175585
Subjects: Inventors; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Prologue --; title: The progressive : John Patterson rang up success with the incorruptible cashier --; title: The legend : Wilbur Wright : why Wilbur mattered --; title: The quiet one : Orville Wright, the invisible flyer ; the brothers of invention --; title: The organizer : Mr. Deeds goes to town ; innovation methods of Edward Deeds --; title: The survivor : Charlie Adams : living Dayton history --; title: The idealist : Arthur Morgan : a mover of earth, a pourer of concrete, a shaper of minds --; title: The boss : Charless Kettering : a self-starter who gave us the self-starter --; title: The infamous : how Thomas Midgley, Jr. gave cars zoom, fixed the A/C, saved countless lives, helped win the war and almost doomed us all --; title: The outsider : Maude Elsa Gardner : aeronautical engineer through two world wars ; Gardner's innovation style --; title: The family tree : The Siebenthaler family : cultivating success across six generations ; Siebenthaler secrets to longevity and innovation --; title: Intermission : the Engineers Club story --; title: The jinx : the origin of Murphy's Law : how a safety backfire protects us daily --; title: The high stepper : Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter : selling the sky --; title: The bootstrapper : Veal V. Loving : "Loving's love" ; Loving's innovation techniques --; title: The calling : Rich Johnson : filling far-off hearts and minds through distance learning --; title: The renewer : Mary Ann Johnson : launching an economic future on aviation history --; title: The standard-bearer : Hardly Trolander --; title: The mentor : Chuck Buchanan : the engineer's engineer --; title: The rebel : John Janning : in the blink of an eye ; Janning's innovation strategies --; title: The forebear : Josiah Wedgwood & the industrial revolution --; title: The enigma : Joe Desch : tinker hacker soldier spy --; title: Epilog --; title: Contributors --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Bibliography --; title: Index.