Pioneers of the Industrial Age
Subtitle: breakthroughs in technology
By: edited by Sherman Hollar
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Inventors and innovators
Publisher: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781615306961
Subjects: Inventors; Inventions; Popular works; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Kay; title: James Hargreaves; title: Richard Arkwright; title: James Watt; title: Edmund Cartwright; title: Samuel Crompton; title: Robert Fulton; title: Eli Whitney; title: Samuel Slater; title: The Stephenson Family; title: George Stephenson; title: Robert Stephenson; title: George Robert Stephenson; title: Samuel F.B. Morse; title: Charles Goodyear; title: Cyrus Hall Mccormick; title: Elias Howe; title: Andrew Carnegie; title: Margaret E. Knight; title: John D. Rockefeller; title: Elijah Mccoy; title: George Westinghouse; title: Alexander Graham Bell; title: Thomas Alva Edison; title: Early life and career; title: Menlo Park; title: The phonograph; title: The electric lightbulb; title: "Invention factory" in West Orange; title: Later years; title: Nikola Tesla; title: Henry Ford; title: Charles Martin Hall; title: George Washington Carver; title: The Wright brothers; title: Guglielmo Marconi; title: Lee de Forest; title: Nora Stanton Blatch Barney.