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Revolution
Biographies
Industrial
Revolution
Biographies
James L. Outman
Elisabeth M.
Outman
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Outman, James L., 1946–
Industrial Revolution. Biographies / James L. Outman and Elisabeth M. Outman.
v. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7876-6514-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Industrialists—Biography—Juvenile literature. 2. Industrial revolution—Ju-
venile literature. 3. Capitalists and financiers—Biography—Juvenile literature. 4.
Inventors—Biography—Juvenile literature. [1. Industrialists. 2. Industrial revolu-
tion. 3. Capitalists and financiers. 4. Inventors.] I. Outman, Elisabeth M., 1951– II.
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Contents
Reader’s Guide
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vii
Industrial Revolution Timeline
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xi
Henry Bessemer .................1
Andrew Carnegie ................8
Henry Ford ..................16
Robert Fulton .................29
Samuel Gompers ................37
Jay Gould ...................47
James J. Hill ..................58
Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) ........69
Karl Marx ...................79
Cyrus McCormick ...............88
J. P. Morgan ..................95
Samuel F. B. Morse ..............106
The Muckrakers: Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair,
Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell ..........114
Robert Owen .................130
John D. Rockefeller ..............139
Theodore Roosevelt ..............148
Adam Smith .................161
v
George Stephenson ..............169
James Watt ..................177
George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla .....184
Eli Whitney .................196
Index
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207
vi
Industrial Revolution: Biographies
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