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American History Reviews, Reviews
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE, by Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson, Harry N. Abrams, $45. Published on the 150th anniversary of inventor Alexander Graham Bell’s birth, this...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
TUPPERWARE: THE PROMISE OF PLASTIC IN 1950s AMERICA, by Alison J. Clarke, Smithsonian Institution Press, 240 pages, $24.95. THIS detailed and entertaining book explores how the plastic storage containers known as Tupperware rose to...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
THE PAINTED PHOTOGRAPH 1839-1914: ORIGINS, TECHNIQUES, ASPIRATIONS, by Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch (Penn State Press, 248 pages, $75.00). Beautifully illustrated with 131 examplesof nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century...
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Aviation History Book Reviews, Reviews
The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, by Peter Pugh, Volume One of a two-part series, Goldberg McDuffie, New York, 2000, $50. This solid tome is the first part of a definitive two-volume history of one of the most famous and revered...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
INVENTION IN AMERICA by Russell Bourne (Fulcrum Publishing, 160 pages, $32.95). Complemented by seldom-seen images from the Library of Congress, Bourne’s work spotlights the wide range of inventions that changed America from an...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
AMERICA ON WHEELS, THE FIRST 100 YEARS: 1896-1996 by Frank Coffey and Joseph Layden (General Publishing Group, Inc., 304 pages, $40.00). Published as a companion to the three-hour PBS special “America on Wheels,” this book...
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American History Reviews, Reviews
Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War, by Benjamin W. Bacon, Presidio Press, Novato, California, (415) 898-1081, 288 pages, $24.95. This book has a hopeful title. In assessing the Civil War,...
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American History Magazine
Reviving a River Among John Wesley Powell’s innovative conservation concepts was the management of water resources both through irrigation and by limiting the number of settlers living in the desert areas of the American Southwest....
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American History Magazine
THE MAN WHO COOLED AMERICA Air conditioning came of age in America in 1925, when engineer Willis Haviland Carrier installed humidity-controlled refrigeration in New York City’s Rivoli Theater. by Joseph Gustaitis It is...
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AMERICAN SCIENCE LEADERS, ABC-CLIO, $49.00. This comprehensive program for Windows features biographies of more than 400 American science innovators from the eighteenth century forward, whose work has improved almost every aspect of life...
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Book Reviews, Reviews
WOMEN ONLINE WORLDWIDE Women worldwide are now able to convene in a substantial forum on Apple’s eWorld for Macintosh computers, called Women Online Worldwide (WOW). Intended for computer novices and the technologically-savvy alike,...
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American History Magazine, Reviews
MODERN MARVELS: THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD,(A&E Television Networks, $19.95). Dreams and struggles, competition and scandals are the inspiration for this video account of the building of one of the country’s engineering...
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American History Magazine
TIME TRAVELERvisiting the past AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY Americans wishing to join in the celebration of the automotive industry can visit a number of musuems and attractions around the country dedicated to preserving the history of one of...
