industrialists

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industrialists

Henry Ford

auto tycoon
2004
A brief biography of Henry Ford, who not only manufactured automobiles but also invented mass production.

Henry Ford

industrialist
2001
A career biography of industrialist Henry Ford, following the path of his life from mechanically-inclined youth to car designer and manufacturer.

Andrew Carnegie

steel king and friend to libraries
1999
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel industry and used much of it for philanthropic causes.

Henry Ford

2002
Discusses the early life of Henry Ford, including his moving to the big city and his success as an inventor, engineer, and pioneer of the automobile.

Henry Ford

2002
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.

Henry Ford

automobile manufacturer and innovator
2003
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.

Henry Ford

young man with ideas
1986
Chronicles the early life of Henry Ford, the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.

Andrew Carnegie

steel tycoon
1989
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.

The tycoons

how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy
2005
Presents an analysis of how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan revolutionized the American economy during the Industrial Age, and discusses how each built their empires, the competition among them, and their influence on society.

Eat my dust!

Henry Ford's first race
2004
Presents a brief, fictionalized, account of the events of October 10, 1901, in simple text with illustrations, when Henry Ford drove one of the first automobiles and won a race to earn money to build a new car that anyone could afford.

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