American inventors, entrepreneurs, and business visionaries
Offers portraits of more than 280 innovators who contributed to the prosperity of the United States, including Gail Borden, the inventor of condensed milk, and Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos cookies
Biography
xxi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780816045594, 0816045593
47927770
Acheson, Edward Goodrich
Amos, Wally
Anderson, Joseph Reid
Anderson, Mary
Arden, Elizabeth
Armstrong, Edwin Howard
Ash, Mary Kay
Astor, John Jacob
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Banuelos, Romana Acosta
Barnum, P.T
Beach, Alferd Ely
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bendix, Vincent Hugo
Berliner, Emile
Birdseye, Clarence
Bissell, George Henry
Drake, Edwin Laurentide
Blackton, James Stuart
Blake, Lyman Reed
Blanchard, Thomas
Blodgett, Katherine Burr
Bloomingdale, Alfred Schiffer
Bluhdorn, Charles G
Bogardus, James
Bok, Edward William
Borden, Gail
Brown, John
Brown, Marie Dutton
Brown, Rachel Fuller
Hazen, Elizabeth Lee
Brush, Charles Francis
Buick, David Dunbar
Burroughs, William Seward
Busch, Adolphus
Candler, Asa Griggs
Capone, Al
Carey, James Sheil
Carlson, Chester Floyd
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie, Dale
Carothers, Wallace Hume
Carrier, Willis Haviland
Cartwright, Alexander Joy, Jr
Carver, George Washington
Case, J.I
Case, Steve
Chouteau, Rene Auguste
Claiborne, Liz
Cohen, Ben
Greenfield, Jerry
Colgate, William
Colt, Samuel
Cone, Moses Herman
Cone, Ceasar
Coolidge, William David
Cooper, Kent
Cooper, Peter
Cornell, Ezra
Coston, Marth Hunt
Cottrell, Frederick Gardner
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond
Dache, Lilly
Daly, Marcus
Davenport, Thomas
Davis, Benjamin Jefferson
Day, Benjamin Henry
Deere, John
De Forest, Lee
Disney, Walt
Donovan, Marion O'Brien
Dorrance, John Thompson
Drake, Samuel
Drew, Richard Gurley
Duke, James Buchanan
Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee
Durant, William Crapo
Duryea, Charles Edgar
Duryea, James Frank
Eastman, George
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Edison, Thomas Alva
Elion, Gertrude Belle
Eillison, William
Evans, Oliver
Everleigh, Ada
Everleigh, Minna
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
Field, Cyrus West
Field, Marshall
Ritch, John
Flagler, Henry Morrison
Flanigen, Edith Marie
Fleischmann, Charles Louis
Flora, William
Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson
Ford, Henry
Forten, James
Franklin, Benjamin
Frasch, Herman
Fuller, Alfred Carl
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Gabe, Frances
Gates, Bill
Gates, John Warne
Gayley, James
Genovese, Vito
Gernsback, Hugo
Getty, J. Paul
Gillette, King Camp
Glidden, Joseph Farwell
Godfrey, Thomas
Goldman, Sylvan nathan
Goldmark, Peter Carl
Goodyear, Charles
Gordy, Berry, Jr
Gorrie, John
Gould, Jay
Graham, Bette Nesmith
Grandin, Temple
Gray, Elisha
Green, Hetty
Gregg, John Robert
Griffin, Merv
Hall, Charles Martin
Hammer, Armand
Handler, Ruth
Harriman, E.H
Hearst, William Randolph
Hefner, Hugh Martson
Hefner, Christie Ann
Helmsley, Harry
Helmsley, Leona
Henry, Vickie Lea
Henson, Jim
Hershey, Milton Snavely
Hewitt, Peter Cooper
Hill, James Jerome
Hilton, Conrad Nicholson
Hollerith, Herman
Hopper, Edna Wallace
Hopper, Grace
Houdry, Eugene Jules
House, Royal Earl
Howe, Elias
Hughes, Howard Robard, Sr
Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr
Huizenga, Harry Wayne
Hunt, H.L
Hunt, John Wesley
Hyatt, John Weseley
Icahn, Carl Celian
Insull, Samuel
Jacuzzi, Candido
Jobs, Steven Paul
Wozniak, Stephen Gary
Jones, Amanda Theodosia
Joyner, Marjorie Stewart
Julian, Percy Lavon
Kaiser, Henry John
Keith, B.F
Albee, E.F
Keith, Minor Cooper
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kellogg, W.K
Kelly, William
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick
Kettering, Charles Franklin
King, Don
King, Richard
Kluge, John Werner
Knight, Margaret
Knight, Sarah Kemble
Kraft, James Lewis
Kroc, Ray
Kwolek, Stephanie Louise
Land, Edwin Herbert
Latimer, Lewis Howard
Lear, William Powell
Leslie, Miriam
Levitt, Abraham
Little, Arthur Dehon
Little, Royal
Lockheed, Malcolm
Lockheed, Allan
Luce, Henry Robinson
Marriott, John Willard
Marsh, Charles Wesley
Masters, Sybilla Righton
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst
Mauchly, John William
Eckert, John Presper, Jr
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
McCoy, Elijah
McMahon, Vince
Mergenthaler, Ottmar
Milken, Michael Robert
Monaghan, Tom
Morgan, Garrett Augustus
Morgan, J.P
Morris, Robert
Morse, Samuel F.B
Muller, Gertrude Agnes
Munsey, Frank Andrew
Naismith, James A
Noble, Edward John
Norton, Charles Hotchkiss
Noyce, Robert Norton
Oakes, Ziba B
Ochoa, Esteban
Olds, Ransom Eli
Otis, Elisha Graves
Parker, Colonel Tom
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd
Perot, Ross
Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas
Pinkerton, Allan
Pinkham, Lydia Estes
Pittman, Robert Warren
Polses, Kim
Post, C.W
Pritzker, Abram Nicholas
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pullman, George Mortimer
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky
Rock, Arthur
Rockefeller, John Davison
Rosenthal, Ida
Rudkin, Margaret Fogarty
Sanders, Harland David
Sears, Richard Warren
Sholes, Christopher Latham
Siebert, Muriel
Singer, Isaac Merritt
Sinofsky, Brian
Slater, Samuel
Smith, Willi
Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
Stanley, Francis Edgar
Stanley, Freelan Oscar
Stevens, Robert Livingston
Stewart, Martha
Strauss, Levi
Strong, Harriett
Sutter, John
Swift, Gustavus Franklin
Tesla, Nikola
Thompson, J. Walter
Thomson, Samuel
Thorp, John
Tilghman, Benjamin Chew
Tilghman, Richard Albert
Trippe, Juan Terry
Tupper, Earl Silas
Turner, Ted
Van Andel, Jay
De Vos, Rich
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Wachner, Linda Joy
Walker, Madame C.J
Walker, Maggie
Waller, Frederic
Walton, Sam
Wanamaker, John
Wang, An
Ward, Montgomery
Wells, Henry
Westinghouse, George
Weyerhaeuser, Frederick
White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
Whitney, Eli
Wilson, Kemmons
Winfrey, Oprah
Wooeds, Granville T
Woolworth, F.W
Wright, Wilbur
Wright, Orville
Wrigley, William, Jr
Yale, Linus, Jr
Yerkes, Charles Tyson
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma