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  • Consolidated Aircraft Corporation

    Series series Images of America
    Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide homes for the Convair workers and their families. These men and women were responsible for building ... Read more

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  • San Diego's North Island

    1911-1941

    Series series Images of Aviation
    San Diego�s North Island is one of the most significant venues of aviation in the world. Starting in 1911, it was the home to one of the nation�s first aviation schools, founded by Glenn Curtiss, who pioneered seaplane flight. He trained the nucleus of America�s future air forces there, including Lt. Theodore Ellyson, the first naval aviator. When the United States entered World War I, the ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of King Coal

    American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940

    by Mark Aldrich ...
    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    A history of the dynamic role of coal in the energy landscape of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.In The Rise and Fall of King Coal, Mark Aldrich explores the pivotal role of coal in the historical energy landscape of the United States. Meticulously researched and clearly written, this analysis of the rise, dominance, and eventual decline of coal as a primary fuel ... Read more

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  • Death Rode the Rails

    American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828–1965

    by Mark Aldrich ...
    For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad ... Read more

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  • Back on Track

    American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1965–2015

    by Mark Aldrich ...
    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    A fascinating account of one of America’s most important industries and its dangers.Throughout the early twentieth century, railroad safety steadily improved across the United States. But by the 1960s, American railroads had fallen apart, the result of a regulatory straightjacket that eroded profitability and undermined safety. Collisions, derailments, worker fatalities, and grade crossing mishaps ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Puss in Boots

    A Musical

    Unabridged

    2 hours 27 min

    2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Audio Drama2019SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Outstanding Production in AudiobookPuss in Boots, a fractured fairytale musical, is a tale of conquering fears, finding your truth, discovering your strengths, and standing for what you believe in, with lots of fun along the way.<... ... Read more

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  • Home Fires

    How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

    Series series How Things Worked
    "Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States . . . authoritative." — The New England QuarterlyHome Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the ... Read more

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  • Natural Capitalism

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  • The Tycoons

    How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

    "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most ... Read more

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