Abstract
TO the extraordinary development of the United States during the last century, history presents no parallel. From a position of comparative insignificance she has risen to be the greatest manfacturing nation the world has ever seen. The growth of her industries has indeed been remarkable, and the real builders of her fortunes have not been her statesmen and soldiers, but her mechanics and inventors. While, however, the story of her national progress is fairly familiar, a knowledge of her pioneers and their work is not general, and it was therefore a happy thought to bring together this series of essays giving a review of the great things achieved.
A Popular History of American Invention.
Edited by Waldemar Kaempffert. Vol. 1: Transportation, Communication, and Power. Pp. xvi + 577. Vol. 2: Material Resources and Labor-Saving Machines. Pp. xiv + 457. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.) 63s. net.
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A Popular History of American Invention . Nature 116, 41–42 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116041a0
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