Business, Scientists, Reference & Collections, Dictionaries & Thesauruses 

In many ways, the history of the United States is the history of the entrepreneur: business visionaries and hands-on inventors who built the railroads, transformed our cities, published our newspapers, and sent us to the moon. American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries is the only single-volume reference that examines the inventors and businesspeople who helped build America. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, each of the 260 entries offers a concise description of the subject's significance in the history of technological and entrepreneurial development and gives an account of the subject's life. Figures from different backgrounds are included, and the contributions of women are also fully represented. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry, a general bibliography, subject indexes - organized by birth date and area of activity - and a general index greatly enhance the reference value of this unique resource. - from Amzon