
America the Ingenious
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The American Genius
- ROAMING
- Rolling Across A Continent: The Prairie Schooner
- Inventing a City: New York-The Erie Canal
- The Original "Skyscrapers": The Yankee Clippers
- A Man, A Plan . . .: The Panama Canal
- The Electric Underground: Building the New York Subway
- Dream Car: The Lincoln Zephyr
- A Plan for the Ages: The Transcontinental Plane
- On the Waterfront: The Container Ship
- Fly Me to the Moon": Apollo 11 and The Space Race
- How Will We Travel In The Future?: From the Space Elevator to the Hoverboard
- TRAINS
- The Golden Vein": The Transcontinental Railroad
- Like Two Gargantuan Tumblers": The Hudson and East River Tunnels
- The New Cathedrals: America's Train Stations
- The Trains They Paid to See: Streamlined Trains
- COMMUNICATING
- No Need to Stop It: The Rotary Printing Press
- What Morse Wrought: The Electric Telegraph
- Faster": The Transatlantic Cable
- Watson Was Wanted: The Telephone
- The Sound of American Singing: Magnetic Tape Recording
- COMPUTING
- A Computer on a Chip": The Microprocessor
- Unimate: The First Industrial Robot
- A Factory at Your Fingertips: 3-D Printing
- The Evolved Human: The Cyborg
- APPAREL
- Ouch!: The Safety Pin
- The Song of the Shirt": The Sewing Machine Wars
- Fitting a Patter: Madame Demorest's Fashion Sense
- Bell-Bottom Blues": Copper-Riveted Jeans
- Emracing the Curves: Liberated by the Bra
- It's Not Dry: Dry Cleaning
- Sneaking Around: The Athletic Shoe
- WOMEN INVENTORS
- Women Reinvent Housework: The Dishwasher and the Diaper Cover
- The Lady Edisons": From Liquid Paper to Kevlar
- BUILDING
- All Safe, Ladies and Gentlemen, All Safe": Mr. Otis's Safety Elevator
- Building the Spine of the Modern World: Carnegie's Steel Mills
- Building Backward: Steel-Frame Construction
- The Great Indoors: Cooling the Air
- Suspended in the Clouds: The Golden Gate Bridge
- Utility as Beauty: The River Rouge
- Architects May Come, and Architect's May Go . . .": Fallingwater
- Inventing a City: Chicago-Building the Big Onion From Scratch
- POWERING
- Power Plant at Sea: The Whaling Ship
- Black Gold: The Oil RIg
- Wizard's Work: The Electric Light
- Taming the Colorado: The Hoover Dam
- Power to the People: The Tenessee Valley Authority
- The Warm Power of the Sun: The Solar Cell
- FIGHTING
- Winning the Revolution: The Penssylvania Rifle
- Mobile Warfare: The Repeating Rifle
- Firepower: The Gatling Gun
- CURING
- Transfusions Help Win the War: Blood Plasma
- It Started with Frankenstein: The Artificial Pacemaker
- Mapping the Body: The MRI
- Manto Cheetah: The Modern Prosthesis
- Heal Thyself: Gene Therapy
- PRODUCING
- Mr. Whitney's Machine: The Cotton Gin
- Breadbasket to the World: Mechanized Farming
- The American Way of Shopping: The Supermarket
- Inventing a City: L.A.-Southern California Aqueduct
- PLAYING
- His Master's Voice": The Phonograph
- America's Music: Jazz
- A Cry in the American Night: Blues
- Fender Benders: The Electric Guitar
- Manufacturing Fun: The Amusement Park
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game": The Polo Grounds
- Wonders and Atmospherics: The Movie Palaces
- It's Older Than You Think: Television
- From Pong to XBox: The Video Game
- Fooling the Mind: The Virtual Environment
- Inventing a Nation: America
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
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