Textbook
The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers who Transformed America, CollegeISBN: 978-0-471-14096-2
Paperback
272 pages
June 1996, ©1996
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The major engineering pioneers whose works transformed America into the world's leading modern power, from Robert Fulton and his inventions of the steamboat to Thomas Edison's construction of the first electrical power network. Introduces each of the major figures and explains how they came up with their ideas and how their works tranformed commerce, industry, and society.