The Dawn of Innovation (58 page)

Refineries

Remington Typewriter

Revolutionary War

Reynolds, Edwin

Rifle Works

Rifles

breech-loading(fig.)

making

muzzle-loading

Rifling machines(fig.) (fig.)

Robbins and Lawrence

Rockefeller, John D.(fig.)

leadership of

railroad rebates and

Roebling, John

Rogers, Henry

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elisha King

machinery of

mass production and

patent of

Rosenwald, Julius

Rothenberg, Winifred

Rothschild, Nathan

Rothschild, “Natty,”

Rough sawing, machine for (fig.)

Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Navy

Royal Yacht Squadron

Rubinstein, Helena

Sackets Harbor

Chauncey and

Savery, Thomas

St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence
(fig.)

Salisbury iron region

Sandys Creek, defeat at

Saw mills

portable(fig.)

Saws(fig.)

circular

crosscut/rip

Schawb, Charlie

Schiff, Jacob

Schneider Electric

Scholes, Christopher

Scholes typewriter(fig.)

Scott, Tom

Scott, Winfield

Scranton, George

Scranton, Selden

Sears and Roebuck

Second Band of the United States

Seminole wars

Seward, William

Sewing machines

Sextants, development of

Shannon, Chesapeake
and

Sharpe, Lucien

Sharps, Christian

Sharps rifle

Sheaffe, Roger

Sheffield steel

Shih, Victor

Shipbuilders' war

Shipping

Shlakman, Vera

Shoes

Sholes, Christopher

Shreve, Henry M.

Siemens

Siemens, Charles

Simonson's

Singer, Isaac M.

Slater, Samuel

Slaughtering

Slavery

Small arms

Smith, Adam

Smith, Sidney

Soap, making

Social security system, Chinese

Social unrest

Society for Useful Manufactures

Society in America
(Trollope)

Software

Solvay technology

Spence, Michael

Sperry Rand

Spindles

Spinning

Springfield Armory

production at

Standard Oil Company

Standard Typewriter Company

Standardization

Starr, Nathan

Starrucca Viaduct

State Council

Steam engines

early

Evans-model

high-pressure

machinery and

mining industry and

power from

stationary

Steam shovels

Steamboats

building

explosions on

western

Steamships

Stebbins, Josiah

Steel

production of(fig.)

railroads and

Steel industry

Steers, George

Stephenson, George

Stereoscopes

Stevens, John

Stevens, John Cox

Stevens, Robert L.

Stock duplicating machine, view of (fig.)

Stock inletting machine, detail of (fig.)

Stockton and Darlington Railroad

Stockyards

Stoves

Strutt, Jedidiah

Stubblefield, James

Summit Tunnel

Sumner, Charles

Swade, Doron

Swift, Gustavus

Tailer, Edward

Tarbell, Ida

Tariffs

Taylorism

Technology

advanced

ball-bearing

British

clockmaking

electrolytic

ginning

information

machining

mechanical precision and

military

printing

production

spinning

stealing

steam-engine

steel/iron

suspension bridge

textile

transferring

Tecumseh

Telegraphs

Telephones

Telescopes

Ten Cylinder machine(fig.)

Terry, Eli

adjustable escapement of (fig.)

clocks and

Texas Rangers, Colt pistols and

Textile industry

Textile mills

Textiles

manufacture of

Thomas, Seth

Thomson, Edgar

Thorndike, Israel, Jr.

Thorndike, Israel, Sr.

Thornton, William

Three Gorges Dam

ThyssenKrupp

Timber, producing

Tippecanoe, battle at

Tocqueville, Alexis de

middle-class and

Tompkins, Daniel

Tools

machine

measuring

Torricelli, Evangelino

Tousard, Louis

Trade

deficits

disruption of

unfair

Transportation

Cincinnati and

extension of

steam

water

Treasury Department

Trevithick, Richard

Trip-hammer barrel welder

Trollope, Anthony

Trollope, Frances(fig.) (fig.)

camp meetings and

Cincinnati and

on industriousness

on internal improvements

on malaria

on sedition

travels of

Trollope, Henry

Tsing Hua University

Turbines

Turnpikes, building

Twain, Mark

Typewriters(fig.)

Uniformity

Urbanization

US Chamber of Commerce

US Cyber Command

US Steel

US Supreme Court

Ushant

Valves(fig.)

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

steamships by

Vernier Caliper(fig.)

Victoria, Queen

Wadsworth, Decius

armory practice and

interchangeability and

Lee and

Wadsworth and

Whitney and

Walker, Sam

Wallis, George

Waltham mill

Waltham Watch Company

Wang Linjun

War Department

War of 1812:

lake theater of(map)

Ward, Artemus

Warships

Washington, George

Washington, D.C.: burning of

Watchmaking

Water

flow

pollution of

rights

Waterpower

Waters, Asa

Waterwheels(fig.)

Watt, James

Wealth of Nations
(Smith)

Weaving

Webb, William H.

Webster, Ambrose

Webster, Daniel

Wellington, Duke of

Wen Jiabao

Wen Yunsong

Westervelt & Mackay

Westinghouse

Whewell, William

Whitney, Eli

case against

cotton gin of(fig.)

interchangeability and

Irvine and

Jefferson and

Madison and

manufacturing by

mechanization and

Miller and

muskets by

North and

reputational thrill ride of

Stebbins and

Tompkins and

tutorship of

Wadsworth and

Whitney, Eli, Jr.

Whitworth, Joseph

measuring machine by

Wilkinson, David

Wilkinson, Hannah

Wilkinson, John

Wilkinson, Oziel

Willcox & Gibbs

William of Ockham

Wilson, Ebenezer

lard rendering apparatus of (fig.)

Winchester

Wolcott, Oliver

Wood, Gordon

Woolsey, Melancthon

Woolworth, Frank

Work output

nutritional intake and

Works of Industry of All Nations

World Bank, water and

World Trade Organization

Wukan

Yarn, making

Yeo, James Lucas

Chauncey and

Kingston and

recall of

warships of

Zhu Rongji

CHARLES R. MORRIS
has written twelve books, including
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