Invention in America / Russell Bourne.
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Golden, Colo. :
Fulcrum Pub.,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Dynamics of American invention : Ben Franklin and the roots of inventiveness
- Mechanics and tinkerers
- Techno-wonders of maritime America
- Revolutionary inventions for the sake of freedom
- Inventing America's first industrial community
- Samuel Slater's miracle on the Blackstone River
- From wharf to waterfall
- Inventing and selling the American system : Dreadful paradox of Eli Whitney's cotton gin
- Oliver Evans's dream of an automated factory
- Invention by clockwork-the school of Eli Terry
- Eli Whitney and the myth of interchangeable parts
- From agricultural inventions and factory towns to the industrial city
- Creative world of Waltham
- Inventions in the super city of Lowell
- Engineering the northern industrial colossus
- Inventions for a new society
- American inventors and the new century : I can make anything a body wants-the spirit of Sam Colt
- "What hath God wrought?"
- "Eighth wonder of the world"- Linotype
- Edison, the prince of lightness
- "Watson, come here-I want you!"
- "Damn'd if they ain't flew!"- Wright Brothers
- George Eastman's magic black box.