Building Civilization : The Growth of Production

by Karwatka, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780970339829
• ISBN10: 0970339828
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Prakken Pubn

Table of Contents

Overview
Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(1)
Construction	2	(34)
Factory Development	36	(24)
Machine Tools	60	(25)
Biographies
Thomas Newcomen	85	(4)
Benjamin Banneker	89	(3)
Richard Arkwright	92	(3)
James Watt	95	(3)
Thomas Jefferson	98	(3)
Oliver Evans	101	(3)
Thomas Telford	104	(3)
Simeon North	107	(3)
Eli Whitney	110	(3)
Samuel Slater	113	(3)
Henry Maudslay	116	(3)
Eli Terry	119	(3)
Catharine Beecher	122	(3)
Joseph Whitworth	125	(3)
Norbert Rillieux	128	(3)
John Roebling	131	(3)
James Nasmyth	134	(4)
Joseph Rogers Brown	138	(3)
Henry Bessemer	141	(3)
Erastus Bigelow	144	(3)
Samuel Colt	147	(3)
George Corliss	150	(3)
Elias Howe	153	(3)
James Eads	156	(3)
Francis Roots	159	(3)
George Babcock and Stephen Wilcox	162	(3)
William Jenney	165	(3)
Alexandre Eiffel	168	(3)
Alfred Nobel	171	(3)
Laroy Sunderland Starrett	174	(3)
John Hyatt	177	(3)
Josiah Willard Gibbs	180	(3)
Charles Norton	183	(3)
Jan Matzeliger	186	(3)
Elihu Thomson	189	(3)
Frederick Taylor	192	(3)
George Ferris	195	(3)
Henry Ford	198	(3)
Charles Hall	201	(3)
Alice Hamilton	204	(3)
Willis Carrier	207	(3)
Lillian Gilbreth	210	(3)
Lloyd Raymond Smith	213	(3)
Harry Vickers	216	(3)
Index	219