They made America /
"The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who used windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | "The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who used windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind America's preeminence. But there is more to this extraordinary history. Harold Evans traces how the innovators have time and again proved to be democratizers, driven not by greed but by an ambition to be remembered. They translated the nation's political ideals into economic reality."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | At head of title: From the steam engine to the search engine : two centuries of innovators. |
| Physical Description: | 496 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-481) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0316277665 (hc) |