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Index
Dedication
The American Genius
ROAMING
Rolling Across a Continent: The Prairie Schooner
Inventing a City: New York—the Erie Canal
The Original “Skyscrapers”: The Yankee Clippers
“A Man, a Plan . . .”: The Panama Canal
The Electric Underground: Building the New York Subway
Dream Car: The Lincoln Zephyr
A Plane for the Ages: The Transcontinental Plane
On the Waterfront: The Container Ship
“Fly Me to the Moon”: Apollo 11 and the Space Race
How Will We Travel in the Future?: From the Space Elevator to the Hoverboard
TRAINS
“The Golden Vein”: The Transcontinental Railroad
“Like Two Gargantuan Tumblers”: The Hudson and East River Tunnels
The New Cathedrals: America’s Train Stations
The Trains They Paid to See: Streamlined Trains
COMMUNICATING
No Need to Stop It: The Rotary Printing Press
What Morse Wrought: The Electric Telegraph
“Faster”: The Transatlantic Cable
Watson Was Wanted: The Telephone
The Sound of America Singing: Magnetic Tape Recording
COMPUTING
“A Computer on a Chip”: The Microprocessor
Unimate: The First Industrial Robot
A Factory at Your Fingertips: 3-D Printing
The Evolved Human: The Cyborg
APPAREL
Ouch!: The Safety Pin
“The Song of the Shirt”: The Sewing Machine Wars
Fitting a Pattern: Madame Demorest’s Fashion Sense
“Bell-Bottom Blues”: Copper-Riveted Jeans
Embracing the Curves: Liberated by the Bra
It’s Not Dry: Dry Cleaning
Sneaking Around: The Athletic Shoe
WOMEN INVENTORS
Women Reinvent Housework: The Dishwasher and the Diaper Cover
“The Lady Edisons”: From Liquid Paper to Kevlar
BUILDING
“All Safe, Ladies and Gentlemen, All Safe”: Mr. Otis’s Safety Elevator
Building the Spine of the Modern World: Carnegie’s Steel Mills
Building Backward: Steel-Frame Construction
The Great Indoors: Cooling the Air
Suspended in the Clouds: The Golden Gate Bridge
Utility as Beauty: The River Rouge
“Architects May Come, and Architects May Go . . .”: Fallingwater
Inventing a City: Chicago: Building the Big Onion from Scratch
POWERING
Power Plant at Sea: The Whaling Ship
Black Gold: The Oil Rig
Wizard’s Work: The Electric Light
Taming the Colorado: The Hoover Dam
Power to the People: The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Warm Power of the Sun: The Solar Cell
FIGHTING
Winning the Revolution: The Pennsylvania Rifle
Mobile Warfare: The Repeating Rifle
Firepower: The Gatling Gun
CURING
Transfusions Help Win the War: Blood Plasma
It Started with Frankenstein: The Artificial Pacemaker
Mapping the Body: The MRI
Man to Cheetah: The Modern Prosthesis
Heal Thyself: Gene Therapy
PRODUCING
Mr. Whitney’s Machine: The Cotton Gin
Breadbasket to the World: Mechanized Farming
The American Way of Shopping: The Supermarket
Inventing a City: L.A.—Southern California Aqueduct
PLAYING
“His Master’s Voice”: The Phonograph
America’s Music: Jazz
A Cry in the American Night: Blues
Fender Benders: The Electric Guitar
Manufactured Fun: The Amusement Park
“Take Me Out to the Ball game”: The Polo Grounds
Wonders and Atmospherics: The Movie Palaces
It’s Older Than You Think: Television
From Pong to Xbox: The Video game
Fooling the Mind: The Virtual Environment
Inventing a Nation: America
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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