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Author : Lynne Breen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578756196
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (561 download)
Download or read book How German Ingenuity Inspired America written by Lynne Breen and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Harrison Martin
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998633
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Ingenuity written by Richard Harrison Martin and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features designers Geoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Tom Brigance, Fox-Brownie, Bonnie Cashin, Anne Fogarty, Halston, Elizabeth Hawes, Muriel King, Anne Klein, Tina Leser, Vera Maxwell, Claire McCardell, Fred Picard, Bobbie Yeoman, Clare Potter, Carolyn Schnurer, Valentina, Diane Von Furstenberg, Emily Wilkins, and B.H. Wragge.
Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Celebrating American Ingenuity written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodney Carlisle
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470306920
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries written by Rodney Carlisle and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique A-to-Z reference of brilliance in innovation and invention Combining engagingly written, well-researched history with the respected imprimatur of Scientific American magazine, this authoritative, accessible reference provides a wide-ranging overview of the inventions, technological advances, and discoveries that have transformed human society throughout our history. More than 400 entertaining entries explain the details and significance of such varied breakthroughs as the development of agriculture, the "invention" of algebra, and the birth of the computer. Special chronological sections divide the entries, providing a unique focus on the intersection of science and technology from early human history to the present. In addition, each section is supplemented by primary source sidebars, which feature excerpts from scientists' diaries, contemporary accounts of new inventions, and various "In Their Own Words" sources. Comprehensive and thoroughly readable, Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries is an indispensable resource for anyone fascinated by the history of science and technology. Topics include: aerosol spray * algebra * Archimedes' Principle * barbed wire * canned food * carburetor * circulation of blood * condom * encryption machine * fork * fuel cell * latitude * music synthesizer * positron * radar * steel * television * traffic lights * Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book AMERICAN INGENUITY. written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucinda Robb
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536210331
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World written by Lucinda Robb and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a cause you’re passionate about? Take a few tips from the suffragists, who led one of the largest and longest movements in American history. The women’s suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women’s right to vote. How did the suffragists do it? One hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows that some of their strategies seem oddly familiar. Women’s marches at inauguration time? Check. Publicity stunts, optics, and influencers? They practically invented them. Petitions, lobbying, speeches, raising money, and writing articles? All of that, too. From moments of inspiration to some of the movement’s darker aspects—including the racism of some suffragist leaders, violence against picketers, and hunger strikes in jail—this International Literacy Association Young Adult Book Award winner takes a clear-eyed view of the role of key figures: Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, and many more. Engagingly narrated by Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, whose friendship goes back generations (to their grandmothers, Lady Bird Johnson and Lindy Boggs, and their mothers, Lynda Robb and Cokie Roberts), this unique melding of seminal history and smart tactics is sure to capture the attention of activists-in-the-making today.
Author : Louis Bergeron
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810934733
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Industry, Architecture and Engineering written by Louis Bergeron and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an illustrated study of American industrial architecture and civil engineering from the mid-18th century to World War II. The 350 compelling bandw photographs (drawn mostly from the Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service) and text by Bergeron and Maiullari-Pontois (experts in the field of industrial archaeology) weave together several significant themes of American history--not only the technological advances and the milestones of civil engineering, but also the socioeconomic impact of these developments and their architectural manifestation. The seven chapters discuss the two phases of industrialization in the U.S., major themes in the U.S. industrial heritage, and understanding our industrial heritage. Oversize: 10.25x11.50". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775496
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Feminine Ingenuity written by Anne L. MacDonald and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald's thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overall history of the women's movement in America.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 158834665X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian American Women written by Smithsonian Institution and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Featured objects range from fine art to computer code, from First Ladies memorabilia to Black Lives Matter placards, and from Hopi pottery to a couch from the Oprah Winfrey show. There are familiar objects--such as the suffrage wagon used to advocate passage of the 19th Amendment and the Pussy Hat from the 2016 Women's March in DC--as well as lesser known pieces revealing untold stories. Portraits, photographs, paintings, political materials, signs, musical instruments, sports equipment, clothes, letters, ads, personal posessions, and other objects reveal the incredible stories of such amazing women as Phillis Wheatley, Julia Child, Sojourner Truth, Mary Cassatt, Madam C. J. Walker, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Till Mobley, Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta, Phyllis Diller, Celia Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billie Jean King, Sylvia Rivera, and so many more. Together with illuminating text, these objects elevate the importance of American women in the home, workplace, government, and beyond. Published to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, Smithsonian American Women is a deeply satisfying read and a must-have reflection on how generations of women have defined what it means to be recognized in both the nation and the world.
Author : Sean Kennelly
Publisher : Do You Know about
ISBN 13 : 9781486713998
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (139 download)
Download or read book American Ingenuity written by Sean Kennelly and published by Do You Know about. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the founding of the United States, Americans have been at the forefront of technology and innovation, creating thousands of important and amazing inventions. Meet the people we can thank for all of the inventions we use each and everyday in this exciting title filled with facts, descriptions, and photos that depict the creative Americans who have improved the world with their bright ideas.
Author : Nick Bunker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872802
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Young Benjamin Franklin written by Nick Bunker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Author : Courtney A. McNeil
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dan Winters's America written by Courtney A. McNeil and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia, to coincide with a major exhibition, Dan Winters’s America is the first museum survey of the career of this talented artist. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His style of portraiture is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his sitters. Winters’s lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and of airplanes and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’s career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling. In addition to the popular icons, Dan Winters’s America includes expressions of his personal vision. This lyrical body of work shows the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate ambiance: photographs of his wife and son, spare cityscapes, and elegant collages.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Industry, Architecture, and Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Kiernan
Publisher : New York : W. Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Road to Colossus written by Thomas Kiernan and published by New York : W. Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiernan traces the transformation of the United States from a weak, loosely organized society of subsistence farmers, fishermen and cottage craftsmen into the most powerful colossus of industrial and technological prowess. Arguing that the primary vehicle of the country's historic transformation has been its evolving social, scientific, technological and industrial machine, he analyzes how and why the United States became the material Goliath and how this has altered the Americans. From Ben Franklin's lightning rod to Roebling's Great East River Bridge, from the Erie Canal to Edison's light bulb and from Henry Ford's mass produced automobile to the Manhattan Project, the volume illuminates America's journey from the 18th century to today. Kiernan's startling conclusion is that what America needs now is more engineers to keep pace with the technological advances made by other nations. ISBN 0-688-00456-3 : $16.95.
Author : Patricia Carter Sluby
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313351562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Inventive Spirit of African Americans written by Patricia Carter Sluby and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles African American inventors and patent holders who have created products to simplify domestic life, make industrial processes more efficient, aid military efforts, and improve safety in leisure activities. Describes inventions over the years from slaves and free blacks of the antebellum and Civil War eras as well as modern thinkers who have contributed to technological and medical advancements.
Author : Sean Kennelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544409887
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book American Ingenuity written by Sean Kennelly and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the founding of the United States, Americans have been at the forefront of technology and innovation, creating thousands of impactful and incredible inventions. Learn about some of the people and technology that changed our world and some that we even use each and every day, including Benjamin Franklin's bifocals and Eli Whitney's cotton gin; revolutionary creations, like Grace Hopper's computer programming language and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone; and modern marvels, like Steve Jobs' Apple computer and Walt Disney's animated films. This exciting title is bursting with facts, descriptions, and photos that depict many of the creative Americans who have improved the world with their bright ideas." -- Back cover.
Author : Josh Hawley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512409
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Tyranny of Big Tech written by Josh Hawley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke. Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites. Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.
