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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 422 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel.... Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion engine, built by a young, unknown, industrious man named...
6) American phoenix: the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 437 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
7) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the...
10) Carnegie
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xi, 612 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Several major industrialists facilitated the growth of industry in America. This interesting title allows readers to learn about such individuals as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford, who were responsible for building industries that employed many people and provided commodities necessary for life in the United States. The colorful scrapbook layout, engaging sidebars, fascinating facts, and detailed images combine...
20) Westinghouse
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of industrialist George Westinghouse, pioneer of electric power and provider of numerous important inventions. Emphasizes Westinghouse's honesty and integrity as a businessman and possessor of wealth.
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