John Adams, a war hero and high tech pioneer who is near death, attempts to use the fortune he has accumulated to set up a new kind of college to train virtuous and disinterested leaders.
Discusses the economic concepts of producers and consumers, describing goods and services, buying and selling, spending, paying for goods and services, workers, and more.
Recounts the story of the invention of the elevator and of its creator, tracing Otis's route from a farm boy watching ropes break on the hay hoist to his contributions to high-rise innovations and other feats of modern architecture.
