I invented the modern age : the rise of Henry Ford
Record details
- ISBN: 1451645589
- ISBN: 9781451645583
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Physical Description:
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xix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes an interview with the author. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. A homecoming : Saving the farm, then saving the entire past ; Between the steam engine and the Apple ; "Nobody knew anything about cars" ; Fordism -- 2. "My toys were all tools" : The boy who hated farming ; McGuffey's "new green world" ; Steam and clockwork ; A house without a mainspring ; "The biggest event in those early years" ; Into Detroit --3. Clara : "He's a thinking, serious person" ; Winning a dead man's job ; Electricity ; A baby and a seventh home ; The Christmas Eve engine -- 4. Working from the ground up : Making a car in a world without any ; "A colorless, limpid, innocent-appearing liquid" ; The Bagley Avenue woodshed ; America's first car race ; Henry Ford's first car -- 5. What Edison said : Ford's first sale ; "There's a young fellow who has made a gas car" ; Ford's first company ; A winter drive with "civilization's latest lisp" ; Dissolution: "Henry wasn't ready" -- 6. "Glory and dust" : "We had to race" ; Smiling Billy's World's Championship Sweepstakes ; Ford vs. Winton: "a thin man can run faster than a fat one" ; The Henry Ford Company ; "The materialization of a nightmare" -- 7. The seven-million-dollar letter : Malcomson's gamble ; From a toy printing press ; The Dodge brothers ; The Ford Motor Company ; "This business cannot last" ; The (first) Model A ; "Boss of the road" -- 8. Ford finds his greatest asset : "Who in hell are you?" ; Couzens bosses the boss ; The cars get shipped ; The importance of dealers ; An earthquake proves the Model A ; Parasites ; Who was Malcomson? -- 9. Inventing the universal car : Who wanted it? ; Sorensen's locked room ; Steering wheel on the left, forever ; New experts, new engine, new steel, new car ; "Without doubt the greatest creation in automobiles ever placed before a people -- |
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Subject: | Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Automobile engineers United States Biography Industrialists United States Biography Automobile industry and trade United States History Ford Model T automobile History |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | TL 140 .F6 S66 2013 | 30775305470115 | General Collection | Available | - |