The Power Makers Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

by Klein, Maury

• ISBN13: 9781596916777
• ISBN10: 159691677X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Summary

This riveting historical saga explores the "power revolution" that has turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercely competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who have made it happen.

Author Biography

Maury Klein is the author of many books, including The Life and Legend of Jay Gould; Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island.

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“Fascinating…Maury Klein’s The Power Makers allows us to step back and remind ourselves— and we do need reminding—that the past two centuries have been a period of extraordinary invention…Fascinating.”—Wall Street Journal

 

“Klein’s book reads like a fairy tale…Klein himself rarely fails to reach for the full significance of events…If you haven’t given Boyle’s law much thought since the Reagan revolution, reading Klein will reward you with an excellent course in heat, electricity, and magnetism, at very little cost to your composure.” —New Yorker

“Maury Klein’s stories of heroic inventors creating the industrial revolution make the history of technology come alive.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

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