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America’s Genius for Innovation
PART I: PATHFINDERS TO A NEW CIVILIZATION
The Heroes Who Got America Going
John Fitch (1743-1798)
Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
Oliver Evans (1755-1819)
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
Sam Colt (1814-1862)
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884)
Isaac Merritt Singer(1811-1875)
Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)
Edwin Drake (1819-1880)
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
Lewis Tappan (1788-1873)
Theodore Dehone Judah (1826-1863)
PART II: AMERICA TAKES OFF
Adventurous Men Unite a Continent
SECTION I: Inventors
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944)
Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963)
Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954)
SECTION II: Democratizers
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
George Eastman (1854-1932)
Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867-1919)
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949)
Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950)
Juan Terry Trippe (1899-1981)
General Georges Doriot (1899-1987)
SECTION III: Empire Builders
Ida Rosenthal (1886-1973)
Samuel Insull (1859-1938)
Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971)
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Thomas Watson (1874-1956)
GODFATHER OF IBM
Thomas Watson Jr. (1914-1993)
A Sailor’s Great Idea—The Interactive Minicomputer
Estée Lauder (1908-2004)
Malcom McLean (1913-2001)
Edwin Land (1909-1991)
Ruth Handler (1916-2002)
PART III: THE DIGITAL AGE
The Electronic Elves of Silicon Valley
Gary Kildall (1942-1994)
The Orphan Who Came Brilliantly Back From The Dead
Mission Accomplished: “A Computer On Every Desk Running Microsoft Software”
Herbert Boyer (1936- ) and Robert Swanson (1947-1999)
Ted Turner (1938- )
Raymond Damadian (1936- )
Larry Page (1972- ) and Sergey Brin (1973- )
Ten Lessons
Innovators Gallery
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
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