Credits

1: © Robert Harding / Robert Harding World Imagery / Corbis

2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 43, 44, 45, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 62, 63: Getty Images

3: © Philip de Bay / Corbis

4, 5: © The Bridgeman Art Library

9: © The Galley Collection / Corbis

10: © Alison Wright / Corbis

11: Courtesy Bostonian Society

13: © Lucien Aigner / Corbis

14: State Archives of Floria, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/16075. Painted by Charles Foster of Jacksonville for the Dr. John Gorrie Ice Memorial foundation. Photographed by Frank Shannon

16: Courtesy Birdseye Estate

17, 22, 32, 47, 60, 64: © Bettmann/Corbis

18: © Philip Gendreau / Corbis

20, 21: Courtesy Carrier Corporation

31: City Noise: The Report of the Commission Appointed by Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, Commissioner of Health, to Study Noise in New York City and to Develop Means of Abating It (Academy Press, 1930)

33: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-09793, Photographer: Wallis Bros.

34: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-00698, Creator unknown

37, 38, 39: Wellcome Library, London

40: Courtesy The Clorox Company

41: Gates Foundation

42: Courtesy Texas Instruments

46: © Steven Vidler / Corbis

48: Courtesy Philip T. Priestly, from Aaron Lufkin Dennison: An Industrial Pioneer and His Legacy © 2009, NAWCC Inc. Thanks also to the NAWCC Library and Nancy Dyer.

49: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (LC-DIG-ppmsca-34721)

51: © Hans Reinhart / Corbis

52: Courtesy The Long Now Foundation. Photograph by Chris Baldwin

54: © Natural History Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

58, 65: © Science Photo Library

59: © Corbis

61: © H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Corbis