MACHINES & THE MEN WHO MADE THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY

by Hartman, Gertrude

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1939. Hardcover; spine ends + cover tips lightly worn; pencil name on front endpaper.. + index. With b&w photo of earlier-day & modern machines, devices, ships, etc. First edn. ||| Overview, at 9th-10th grade level, chronicling inventors & their machines / devices that transformed home-based occupations to industry--spinning jennies; Whitney's cotton gin; mining; steam engines; Fulton's steamboat; railroad locomotives; Franklin, Ampere, Faraday, & electricity; Drake strikes oil; `Kelly's Kettles' blast furnaces; Goodyear's rubber; Howe's sewing machine; Morse's telegraph; Bell's telephone; skyscrapers; Edison; farm machinery; automobile; heavier-than-air flight; etc.