Contains twenty-two essays that discuss the causes, spread, and impact of the Industrial Revolution, the innovators behind the movement, and the role of laborers and robber barons.
Presents a biography of nineteenth-century steel mogul, Andrew Carnegie, and describes his early childhood in Scotland, arrival in America, work on the railroad, and the events that made him a millionaire in the steel industry.
A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
Presents a biography of Henry Ford that examines his childhood and early work on automobiles, his development of the Model T and Model A, establishment of the first assembly line, and his controversial personal and private life.
Text and photos chronicle the life and career of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century businessman John D. Rockefeller, including the rise and fall of the Standard Oil Company.
