industrialists

A photo-illustrated chronicle of the life of the founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford.

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.

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.

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.

Examines the life of John Deere, co-founder of Plough Manufactory, a business opened to manufacture steel plows, and which continues to make farm machinery in the twenty-first century.

Biography of George Eastman, a bank clerk who revolutionized the world of photography with the invention of the dry-plate coating machine, roll film, and the hand-held camera, discussing his business acumen, money-making skills, and charitable works.

The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

A biography of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, emphasizing his numerous philanthropies.

Cosmetics maven Mary Kay Ash tells the story of her life, discussing her childhood in rural Texas, her struggles as a single mother, her success in direct sales, and her founding of the Mary Kay Cosmetics company in her post-retirement years.

Profiles entrepreneurs who have turned their visions into realities and had a significant impact on world history.