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090 HD8066 .W62 v.11
100 1 Derks, Scott.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
no94015573
245 10 Working Americans, 1880-2010.|nVolume XI,|pInventors &
entrepreneurs /|cby Scott Derks.
246 30 Inventors & entrepreneurs
246 31 Inventors and entrepreneurs
264 1 Amenia, NY :|bGrey House Pub.,|c[2010]
264 4 |c©2010
300 xvii, 572 pages :|billustrations ;|c29 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 "A universal reference book."
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 1880-1899 Introduction -- Developments in oil -- Buck
Blanchard, traveling book salesman -- 1885 innovations --
Jan Matzeliger, revolutionized the shoe making industry --
1886 innovations -- James "Jake" Ritty, invented the cash
register -- 1900-1909 Introduction -- Marguerite Globman,
attempted to invent streetcar fender -- An antitoxin for
laziness -- Milton S. Hershey, created Hershey's chocolate
-- Chocolate timeline -- Henry Wood, improved sales
through mail-order seed catalog -- 1910-1919 Introduction
-- James Murray Spangler, invented upright vacuum cleaner
-- Vacuum cleaner timeline -- Domestic labor-saving
invention timeline -- Harnessing heredity -- Grace
Wiedersein, created the Campbell's kids -- Commercial
canning timeline -- Food and food brand timeline -- Madam
C.J. Walker, founded successful hair care business -- 1920
-1920 Introduction -- Using the vacuum tube to hear --
Allan Kusse, harvested, shaped and distributed ice --
Refrigeration timeline -- Gideon Sundback, revolutionized
the zipper -- Joseph Ridgeway, stock pool manager on Wall
Street -- 1930-1939 Introduction -- George Mecherle,
established State Farm automobile insurance -- Off the
record: snuff -- Donald Davis, created innovative Wheaties
ad campaign -- Radio timeline -- General Mills timeline --
Herbert Thomas Kalmus, invented technicolor --
Photographic film timeline -- 1940-1949 Introduction --
William J. Woods, made electric light affordable --
Electric light bulb timeline -- Lt. (Dr.) Mary Sears,
overcame prejudices in the U.S. Navy -- Something new and
strange in plastics -- Percy Lebraon Spencer, invented the
microwave -- 1950-1959 Introduction -- Edwin Howard
Armstrong, father of FM radio -- New York City in 1954 --
Large electronic machines -- Jack Simplot, created a
fortune from french fries -- Jack Kilby, revolutionized
the electronics industry -- Notable inventions of the
1950s -- 1960-1969 Introduction -- Coca-cola broadens its
coverage -- Norton Simon, created multimillion dollar
Hunt's empire -- Dr. Harry Coover, helped discover super
glue -- Notable inventions of the 1960s -- Benjamin
Eisenstadt, inventor of Sweet-n-low -- 1970-1979
Introduction -- Roy and Dotty Eargle, created successful
antique business -- Bette Nesmith Graham, invented liquid
paper -- History of office equipment -- First color
telecast -- Hank Selman, pioneered computer leasing --
Notable inventions of the 1970s -- 1980-1989 Introduction
-- Stephen Hassenfeld, fine tuned Hasbro's GI Joe --
Notable American toy timeline -- James Kennedy Jarrett,
super accurate rifle guru -- Savannah River nuclear
facility timeline -- Kidcorder: sold as a toy -- Bill
Reindollar, created cash register repair service --
Business machines timeline -- 1990-1999 Introduction --
Marie Moffett, visionary of hydrogen fuel cells -- Jerry
D. Neal, vanguard in emerging cell phone market -- Cell
phones and wireless communications timeline -- Maurice
Jennings, launched the Biscuitville restaurant chain --
Fast food and chain restaurant timeline -- Toying with
science -- 200-2010 Introduction -- Rey Banatao, created a
greener surfboard -- William Thomas Davis, launched Thomas
Creek Brewery as retiree -- Gorm Bressner, industrial
designer with many patents -- 3-D printing spurs a
manufacturing revolution.
648 7 19th century|2fast
648 7 20th century|2fast
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650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235
650 7 Social conditions.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
1919811
650 7 Businesspeople.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/842980
650 7 Inventors.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/978052
651 0 United States|xSocial conditions|y19th century.|0https://
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651 0 United States|xSocial conditions|y20th century.|0https://
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651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
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