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Madness in the making : the triumphant rise and untimely fall of America's show inventors / David Lindsay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindsay, David, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventions--United States--History.
- Inventions.
- Inventors.
- History.
- United States.
- Inventors--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kodansha International, 1997.
- Summary:
- In this lively portrait of American inventors and the forces that spurred their creativity, Lindsay's cast includes dozens of colorful characters, such as Samuel Colt, who, years before unveiling his famous six-shooter, offered trials of laughing gas to the public. Lindsay has written an entertaining book that shows how America became the invention-driven, technologically sophisticated society that it is today. 21 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-396) and index.
- ISBN:
- 156836203X
- OCLC:
- 37519245
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