American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

Acheson, Edward Goodrich

Amos, Wally

Anderson, Joseph Reid

Anderson, Mary

Arden, Elizabeth

Armstrong, Edwin Howard

Ash, Mary Kay

Astor, John Jacob

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

Banuelos, Romana Acosta

Barnum, P.T.

Beach, Alferd Ely

Bell, Alexander Graham

Bendix, Vincent Hugo

Berliner, Emile

Birdseye, Clarence

Bissell, George Henry

Drake, Edwin Laurentide

Blackton, James Stuart

Blake, Lyman Reed

Blanchard, Thomas

Blodgett, Katherine Burr

Bloomingdale, Alfred Schiffer

Bluhdorn, Charles G.

Bogardus, James

Bok, Edward William

Borden, Gail

Brown, John

Brown, Marie Dutton

Brown, Rachel Fuller

Hazen, Elizabeth Lee

Brush, Charles Francis

Buick, David Dunbar

Burroughs, William Seward

Busch, Adolphus

Candler, Asa Griggs

Capone, Al

Carey, James Sheil

Carlson, Chester Floyd

Carnegie, Andrew

Carnegie, Dale

Carothers, Wallace Hume

Carrier, Willis Haviland

Cartwright, Alexander Joy, Jr.

Carver, George Washington

Case, J.I.

Case, Steve

Chouteau, Rene Auguste

Claiborne, Liz

Cohen, Ben

Greenfield, Jerry

Colgate, William

Colt, Samuel

Cone, Moses Herman

Cone, Ceasar

Coolidge, William David

Cooper, Kent

Cooper, Peter

Cornell, Ezra

Coston, Marth Hunt

Cottrell, Frederick Gardner

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond

Dache, Lilly

Daly, Marcus

Davenport, Thomas

Davis, Benjamin Jefferson

Day, Benjamin Henry

Deere, John

De Forest, Lee

Disney, Walt

Donovan, Marion O'Brien

Dorrance, John Thompson

Drake, Samuel

Drew, Richard Gurley

Duke, James Buchanan

Du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee

Durant, William Crapo

Duryea, Charles Edgar

Duryea, James Frank

Eastman, George

Edgerton, Harold Eugene

Edison, Thomas Alva

Elion, Gertrude Belle

Eillison, William

Evans, Oliver

Everleigh, Ada

Everleigh, Minna

Farnsworth, Philo Taylor

Field, Cyrus West

Field, Marshall

Ritch, John

Flagler, Henry Morrison

Flanigen, Edith Marie

Fleischmann, Charles Louis

Flora, William

Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson

Ford, Henry

Forten, James

Franklin, Benjamin

Frasch, Herman

Fuller, Alfred Carl

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Gabe, Frances

Gates, Bill

Gates, John Warne

Gayley, James

Genovese, Vito

Gernsback, Hugo

Getty, J. Paul

Gillette, King Camp

Glidden, Joseph Farwell

Godfrey, Thomas

Goldman, Sylvan nathan

Goldmark, Peter Carl

Goodyear, Charles

Gordy, Berry, Jr.

Gorrie, John

Gould, Jay

Graham, Bette Nesmith

Grandin, Temple

Gray, Elisha

Green, Hetty

Gregg, John Robert

Griffin, Merv

Hall, Charles Martin

Hammer, Armand

Handler, Ruth

Harriman, E.H.

Hearst, William Randolph

Hefner, Hugh Martson

Hefner, Christie Ann

Helmsley, Harry

Helmsley, Leona

Henry, Vickie Lea

Henson, Jim

Hershey, Milton Snavely

Hewitt, Peter Cooper

Hill, James Jerome

Hilton, Conrad Nicholson

Hollerith, Herman

Hopper, Edna Wallace

Hopper, Grace

Houdry, Eugene Jules

House, Royal Earl

Howe, Elias

Hughes, Howard Robard, Sr.

Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr.

Huizenga, Harry Wayne

Hunt, H.L.

Hunt, John Wesley

Hyatt, John Weseley

Icahn, Carl Celian

Insull, Samuel

Jacuzzi, Candido

Jobs, Steven Paul

Wozniak, Stephen Gary

Jones, Amanda Theodosia

Joyner, Marjorie Stewart

Julian, Percy Lavon

Kaiser, Henry John

Keith, B.F.

Albee, E.F.

Keith, Minor Cooper

Kellogg, John Harvey

Kellogg, W.K.

Kelly, William

Kennedy, Joseph Patrick

Kettering, Charles Franklin

King, Don

King, Richard

Kluge, John Werner

Knight, Margaret

Knight, Sarah Kemble

Kraft, James Lewis

Kroc, Ray

Kwolek, Stephanie Louise

Land, Edwin Herbert

Latimer, Lewis Howard

Lear, William Powell

Leslie, Miriam

Levitt, Abraham

Little, Arthur Dehon

Little, Royal

Lockheed, Malcolm

Lockheed, Allan

Luce, Henry Robinson

Marriott, John Willard

Marsh, Charles Wesley

Masters, Sybilla Righton

Matzeliger, Jan Ernst

Mauchly, John William

Eckert, John Presper, Jr.

McCormick, Cyrus Hall

McCoy, Elijah

McMahon, Vince

Mergenthaler, Ottmar

Milken, Michael Robert

Monaghan, Tom

Morgan, Garrett Augustus

Morgan, J.P.

Morris, Robert

Morse, Samuel F.B.

Muller, Gertrude Agnes

Munsey, Frank Andrew

Naismith, James A.

Noble, Edward John

Norton, Charles Hotchkiss

Noyce, Robert Norton

Oakes, Ziba B.

Ochoa, Esteban

Olds, Ransom Eli

Otis, Elisha Graves

Parker, Colonel Tom

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd

Perot, Ross

Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas

Pinkerton, Allan

Pinkham, Lydia Estes

Pittman, Robert Warren

Polses, Kim

Post, C.W.

Pritzker, Abram Nicholas

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pullman, George Mortimer

Pupin, Michael Idvorsky

Rock, Arthur

Rockefeller, John Davison

Rosenthal, Ida

Rudkin, Margaret Fogarty

Sanders, Harland David

Sears, Richard Warren

Sholes, Christopher Latham

Siebert, Muriel

Singer, Isaac Merritt

Sinofsky, Brian

Slater, Samuel

Smith, Willi

Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

Stanley, Francis Edgar

Stanley, Freelan Oscar

Stevens, Robert Livingston

Stewart, Martha

Strauss, Levi

Strong, Harriett

Sutter, John

Swift, Gustavus Franklin

Tesla, Nikola

Thompson, J. Walter

Thomson, Samuel

Thorp, John

Tilghman, Benjamin Chew

Tilghman, Richard Albert

Trippe, Juan Terry

Tupper, Earl Silas

Turner, Ted

Van Andel, Jay

De Vos, Rich

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Wachner, Linda Joy

Walker, Madame C.J.

Walker, Maggie

Waller, Frederic

Walton, Sam

Wanamaker, John

Wang, An

Ward, Montgomery

Wells, Henry

Westinghouse, George

Weyerhaeuser, Frederick

White, Eartha Mary Magdalene

Whitney, Eli

Wilson, Kemmons

Winfrey, Oprah

Wooeds, Granville T.

Woolworth, F.W.

Wright, Wilbur

Wright, Orville

Wrigley, William, Jr.

Yale, Linus, Jr.

Yerkes, Charles Tyson

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma.

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Copyright

Introduction

Entries

Acheson, Edward

Amos, Wally

Anderson, Joseph R.

Anderson, Mary

Andreessen, Marc

Arden, Elizabeth

Armstrong, Edwin

Ash, Mary Kay

Astor, John Jacob

Baekeland, Leo

Bañuelos, Romana

Barnum, P. T.

Beach, Alfred

Bechtel, Stephen

Bell, Alexander Graham

Ben and Jerry

Bendix, Vincent

Berliner, Emile

Bezos, Jeff

Birdseye, Clarence

Bissell, George, and Edwin Drake

Blackton, J. Stuart

Blake, Lyman

Blanchard, Thomas

Blodgett, Katharine

Bloomberg, Michael

Bloomingdale, Alfred

Bluhdorn, Charles G.

Bogardus, James

Bok, Edward

Borden, Gail

Brin, Sergey, and Larry Page

Brown, John (entrepreneur)

Brown, Marie Dutton

Brown, Rachel, and Elizabeth Hazen

Brush, Charles F.

Buffett, Warren

Buick, David

Burnett, Leo

Burroughs, William

Busch, Adolphus

Bushnell, Nolan

Campbell, Joseph W.

Candler, Asa

Capone, Al

Carlson, Chester

Carnegie, Andrew

Carnegie, Dale

Carothers, Wallace

Carrier, Willis

Cartwright, Alexander

Carver, George Washington

Case, J. I.

Case, Steve

Chouteau, René Auguste

Claiborne, Liz

Clark, James H.

Colgate, William

Colonel Sanders

Colt, Samuel

Cone, Moses and Ceasar

Coolidge, William

Cooper, Kent

Cooper, Peter

Cornell, Ezra

Coston, Martha

Cottrell, Frederick

Curtiss, Glenn

Daché, Lilly

Daly, Marcus

Davenport, Thomas

Davis, Benjamin

Day, Benjamin

De Forest, Lee

Deere, John

Dell, Michael

Disney, Walt

Donovan, Marion

Dorrance, John

Drake, Samuel

Drew, Richard

du Pont de Nemours, Éleuthère Irénée

Duke, James

Durant, William

Duryea, Charles and Frank

Eastman, George

Edgerton, Harold

Edison, Thomas

Elion, Gertrude

Ellison, Larry

Ellison, William

Ertegun, Ahmet

Evans, Oliver

Everleigh, Ada and Minna

Fairchild, Sherman

Farnsworth, Philo

Field, Cyrus

Field, Marshall

Filo, David, and Jerry Yang

Fitch, John

Flagler, Henry

Flanigen, Edith

Fleischmann, Charles

Flora, William

Forbes, Malcolm

Ford, Henry

Forten, James

Franklin, Benjamin

Frasch, Herman

Fuller, Alfred

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Gabe, Frances

Gates, Bill

Gates, John Warne

Gayley, James

Genovese, Vito

Gernsback, Hugo

Getty, J. Paul

Giannini, A. P.

Gillette, King

Glidden, Joseph

Godfrey, Thomas (inventor)

Goldman, Sylvan

Goldmark, Peter

Goodyear, Charles

Gordy, Berry, Jr.

Gorrie, John

Gould, Jay

Graham, Bette Nesmith

Graham, Bill

Graham, Katherine

Grandin, Temple

Gray, Elisha

Green, Hetty

Gregg, John R.

Griffin, Merv

Grove, Andrew S.

Hall, Charles M.

Hall, Robert

Hammer, Armand

Handler, Ruth

Harriman, E. H.

Harvey, Fred

Hearst, William Randolph

Hefner, Hugh and Christie

Helmsley, Harry and Leona

Henry, Vickie Lea

Acheson, Edward Goodrich -- Amos, Wally -- Anderson, Joseph Reid -- Anderson, Mary -- Arden, Elizabeth -- Armstrong, Edwin Howard -- Ash, Mary Kay -- Astor, John Jacob -- Baekeland, Leo Hendrik -- Banuelos, Romana Acosta -- Barnum, P.T. -- Beach, Alfred Ely -- Bechtel, Stephen -- Bell, Alexander Graham -- Bendix, Vincent Hugo -- Berliner, Emile -- Bezos, Jeffrey -- Birdseye, Clarence -- Bissell, George Henry, and Edwin Laurentide Drake -- Blackton, James Stuart -- Blake, Lyman Reed -- Blanchard, Thomas -- Blodgett, Katharine Burr -- Bloomberg, Michael -- Bloomingdale, Alfred Schiffer -- Bluhdorn, Charles G. -- Bogardus, James -- Bok, Edward William -- Borden, Gail -- Brin, Sergey, and Larry Page -- Brown, John -- Brown, Marie Dutton -- Brown, Rachel Fuller, and Elizabeth Lee Hazen -- Brush, Charles Francis -- Buffett, Warren -- Buick, David Dunbar -- Burnett, Leo -- Burroughs, William Seward -- Busch, Adolphus -- Candler, Asa Griggs -- Capone, Al -- Carlson, Chester Floyd -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Carnegie, Dale -- Carothers, Wallace Hume -- Carrier, Willis Haviland -- Cartwright, Alexander Joy, Jr. -- Carver, George Washington -- Case, J.I. -- Case, Steve -- Chouteau, Rene Auguste -- Claiborne, Liz -- Clark, James H. -- Cohen, Ben, and Jerry Greenfield -- Colgate, William -- Colt, Samuel -- Cone, Moses Herman, and Ceasar Cone -- Coolidge, William David -- Cooper, Kent -- Cooper, Peter -- Cornell, Ezra -- Coston, Martha Hunt -- Cottrell, Frederick Gardner -- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond -- Dache, Lilly -- Daly, Marcus -- Davenport, Thomas -- Davis, Benjamin Jefferson -- Day, Benjamin Henry -- Deere, John -- De Forest, Lee -- Dell, Michael -- Disney, Walt -- Donovan, Marion O'Brien -- Dorrance, John Thompson -- Drake, Samuel -- Drew, Richard Gurley -- Duke, James Buchanan -- du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthere Irenee -- Durant, William Crapo -- Duryea, Charles Edgar and James Frank Duryea -- Eastman, George -- Edgerton, Harold Eugene -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Elion, Gertrude Belle -- Ellison, Larry -- Ellison, William --

Ertegun, Ahmet -- Evans, Oliver -- Everleigh, Ada, and Minna Everleigh -- Fairchild, Sherman -- Farnsworth, Philo Taylor -- Field, Cyrus West -- Field, Marshall -- Filo, David, and Jerry Yang -- Fitch, John -- Flagler, Henry Morrison -- Flanigen, Edith Marie -- Fleischmann, Charles Louis -- Flora, William -- Forbes, Malcolm Stevenson -- Ford, Henry -- Forten, James -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frasch, Herman -- Fuller, Alfred Carl -- Fuller, R. Buckminster--Gabe, Frances -- Gates, Bill -- Gates, John Wayne -- Gayley, James -- Genovese, Vito -- Gernsback, Hugo -- Getty, J. Paul -- Giannini, Amadeo Peter -- Gillette, King Camp -- Glidden, Joseph Farwell -- Godfrey, Thomas -- Goldman, Sylvan Nathan -- Goldmark, Peter Carl -- Goodyear, Charles -- Gordy, Berry, Jr. -- Gorrie, John -- Gould, Jay -- Graham, Bette Nesmith -- Graham, Katherine --Grandin, Temple -- Gray, Elisha -- Green, Hetty -- Gregg, John Robert -- Griffin, Merv -- Grove, Andrew -- Hall, Charles Martin -- Hammer, Armand -- Handler, Ruth -- Harriman, E.H. -- Hearst, William Randolph -- Hefner, Hugh Marston, and Christie Ann Hefner -- Helmsley, Harry, and Leona Helmsley -- Henry, Vickie Lea -- Henson, Jim -- Hershey, Milton Snavely -- Hewitt, Peter Cooper -- Hewlett, William, and David Packard -- Hill, James Jerome -- Hilton, Conrad Nicholson -- Hollerith, Herman -- Hopper, Edna Wallace -- Hopper, Grace -- Houdry, Eugene Jules -- House, Royal Earl -- Howe, Elias -- Hughes, Howard Robard, Sr., and Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. -- Huizenga, Harry Wayne -- Hunt, H.L. -- Hunt, John Wesley -- Hyatt, John Wesley -- Icahn, Carl Celian -- Insull, Samuel -- Jacuzzi, Candido -- Jay-Z -- Jobs, Steven Paul, and Stephen Gary Wozniak -- Jones, Amanda Theodosia -- Joyner, Marjorie Stewart -- Julian, Percy Lavon -- Kaiser, Henry John -- Keith, B.F., and E.F. Albee -- Keith, Minor Cooper -- Kellogg, John Harvey, and W.K. Kellogg -- Kelly, William -- Kennedy, Joseph Patrick -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- King, Don -- King, Richard -- Kluge, John Werner -- Knight, Margaret -- Knight, Sarah Kemble -- Kraft, James Lewis -- Kroc, Ray -- Kwolek, Stephanie Louise --

Land, Edwin Herbert

Latimer, Lewis Howard

Lauder, Estee

Lear, William Powell

Leslie, Miriam

Levitt, Abraham

Little, Arthur Dehon

Little, Royal

Lockheed, Malcolm, and Allan Lockheed

Luce, Henry Robinson

Marriott, John Willard

Marsh, Charles Wesley

Masters, Sybilla Righton

Matzeliger, Jan Ernst

Mauchly, John William, and John Presper Eckert, Jr.

Mayer, Louis B.

McCormick, Cyrus Hall

McCoy, Elijah

McMahon, Vince

Mergenthaler, Ottmar

Milken, Michael Robert

Monaghan, Tom

Morgan, Garrett Augustus

Morgan, J.P.

Morris, Robert

Morse, Samuel F.B.

Muller, Gertrude Agnes

Munsey, Frank Andrew

Naismith, James A.

Newmark, Craig

Noble, Edward John

Norton, Charles Hotchkiss

Noyce, Robert Norton

Oakes, Ziba B.

Ochoa, Esteban

Olds, Ransom Eli

Otis, Elisha Graves

Parker, Colonel Tom

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd

Perot, Ross

Pickens, T. Boone

Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas

Pinkerton, Allan

Pinkham, Lydia Estes

Pittman, Robert Warren

Polese, Kim

Post, C.W.

Pritzker, Abram Nicholas

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pullman, George Mortimer

Pupin, Michael Idvorsky

Reuther, Walter

Rock, Arthur

Rockefeller, John Davison

Rosenthal, Ida

Rozelle, Pete

Rudkin, Margaret Fogarty

Sanders, Harland David

Sarnoff, David

Schwab, Charles

Sears, Richard Warren

Sholes, Christopher Latham

Siebert, Muriel

Simmons, Russell

Singer, Isaac Merritt

Slater, Samuel

Smith, Frederick

Smith, Willi

Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

Stanley, Francis Edgar, and Freelan Oscar Stanley

Stern, David

Stevens, Robert Livingston

Stewart, Martha

Strauss, Levi

Strong, Harriett

Sutter, John

Swift, Gustavus Franklin

Tesla, Nikola

Thompson, J. Walter

Thomson, Samuel

Thorp, John

Tilghman, Benjamin Chew, and Richard Albert Tilghman

Trippe, Juan Terry

Tupper, Earl Silas

Turner, Ted Van Andel, Jay, and Rich DeVos

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Wachner, Linda Joy

Walker, Madame C.J.

Walker, Maggie

Waller, Frederic

Walton, Sam

Wanamaker, John

Wang, An

Ward, Montgomery

Watson, Jr., Thomas J.

Wells, Henry

Westinghouse, George

Weyerhaeuser, Frederick

White, Eartha Mary Magdalene

Whitney, Eli

Wilson, Kemmons

Winfrey, Oprah

Woods, Granville T.

Woolworth, F.W.

Wright, Wilbur, and Orville Wright

Wrigley, William, Jr. Yale, Linus, Jr.

Yerkes, Charles Tyson

Zuckerberg, Mark

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma.