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Contents
Copyright Page
America’s Genius for Innovation
PART I: PATHFINDERS TO A NEW CIVILIZATION
The Heroes Who Got America Going
John Fitch (1743-1798)
Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
Oliver Evans (1755-1819)
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
Sam Colt (1814-1862)
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884)
Isaac Merritt Singer(1811-1875)
Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)
Edwin Drake (1819-1880)
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
Lewis Tappan (1788-1873)
Theodore Dehone Judah (1826-1863)
PART II: AMERICA TAKES OFF
Adventurous Men Unite a Continent
SECTION I: Inventors
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944)
Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963)
Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954)
SECTION II: Democratizers
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
George Eastman (1854-1932)
Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867-1919)
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949)
Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950)
Juan Terry Trippe (1899-1981)
General Georges Doriot (1899-1987)
SECTION III: Empire Builders
Ida Rosenthal (1886-1973)
Samuel Insull (1859-1938)
Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971)
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Thomas Watson (1874-1956)
GODFATHER OF IBM
Thomas Watson Jr. (1914-1993)
A SAILOR’S GREAT IDEA—THE INTERACTIVE MINICOMPUTER
Estée Lauder (1908-2004)
Malcom McLean (1913-2001)
Edwin Land (1909-1991)
Ruth Handler (1916-2002)
PART III: THE DIGITAL AGE
The Electronic Elves of Silicon Valley
Gary Kildall (1942-1994)
THE ORPHAN WHO CAME BRILLIANTLY BACK FROM THE DEAD
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: “A COMPUTER ON EVERY DESK RUNNING MICROSOFT SOFTWARE”
Herbert Boyer (1936- ) and Robert Swanson (1947-1999)
Ted Turner (1938- )
Raymond Damadian (1936- )
Larry Page (1972- ) and Sergey Brin (1973- )
Ten Lessons
Innovators Gallery
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Copyright © 2004 by Harold Evans Associates LLC
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including
information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may
quote brief passages in a review.

Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
First eBook Edition: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-316-07034-8
Resounding acclaim for Harold Evans’s
They Made America
Selected by Fortune magazine as one of the best books of the past 75 years
“ Innovators have been reinventing America for more ............

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