American Science and Invention: A Pictorial History

American science and invention, a pictorial history : the fabulous story of how American dreamers, wizards, and inspired tinkerers converted a wilderness into the wonder of the world

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. ix, 437 pages : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32 cm. ; LCCN: 54-9812 ; green cloth in dark green, red and yellow pictorial, repaired dustjacket ; Folio sized ; Contents: Part One: Giants in the wilderness -- The boundaries of America -- Trades in America -- The natural philosophers -- Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford -- The honest heretic, Joseph Priestley -- Part Two: The Shock of freedom -- From despair to Yankee brag in forty years -- Surveyors of a continent -- Surveyor of the sea -- The men who invented themselves -- The atmospheric steam engine -- Oliver Evans -- Engineering dynasty -- Robert Fulton -- The Erie Canal -- Eli Whitney -- The first successful factory -- The Lowell Mills -- Part Three: Bright dream-dark fulfillment -- American perfectibility -- The United States and adjoining territories in the 1820s -- The naturalists -- William Beaumont -- Anesthesia -- Joseph Henry -- Yankee invention and the American myth -- Samuel F. B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- The sewing machine -- The reaper and the singing plow -- American engineering -- The steam engine rail road -- Clipper ships -- Forge, pan and derrick -- The Atlantic cable -- Part Four: The tools of war -- The war telegraph -- The balloonists -- Ordnance -- Iron ships of war -- Torpedo warfare -- Part Five: The new era -- The centennial -- George Mortimer Pullman -- The refrigerator car -- The million-acre farm -- The age of the machine -- The machine to replace the pen -- George Westinghouse -- Photography -- Astronomy -- Alexander Graham Bell -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- J. Willard Gibbs -- Part Six: The last individualists -- Michelson -- The horseless carriage -- Robert A. Millikan -- The Wright brothers -- George Ellery Hale -- Lee De Forest -- Irving Langmuir -- The chemistry industry -- Part Seven: The new dimension -- Electronics -- The second industrial revolution -- Nucleonics -- The chain reaction -- The twentieth century: the halfway mark ; "This is the story of American change; how the very nature of the Colonies determined a particular kind of science and invention; how this science and invention reacted on American life to change it; how this changed America made new and different demands on science and invention and was again changed, until after one hundred and seventy-five years of this interplay of action and reaction, of constant change, we find ourselves here today. We look at each other, some of us satisfied, some of us not, and wonder how we got that way. This book is my answer to that question" -- Mitchell Wilson. ; image reproduced here represents "Concentric rings are formed when a pencil of light is split in two and then recombined" as an example of interference patterns ; 1,200 illustrations ; thick, heavy volume ; foxing, spots on bottom of textblock, else VG/G. Book. Artikel-Nr. 007050

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