Profiles people who were at the center of the industrial revolution, including railroad pioneer George Stephenson, textiles industrialist Samuel Slater, and labor leader Samuel Gompers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.
Contents
Sir Richard Arkwright -- James Watt -- George Stephenson -- Samuel Slater -- Robert Fulton -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Goodyear -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Thomas Edison -- Andrew Carnegie -- John D. Rockefeller -- Henry Ford -- Samuel Gompers -- Mary Harris Jones -- Jane Addams -- Chronology.