American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries (Facts on File Library of American History)

Abstract

The American economy has changed dramatically over the last four centuries. What was primarily an agrarian society has been transformed into an industrial one that depends on products and services that were once inconceivable. These changes came about as a direct result of the efforts of inventors, entrepreneurs, and business visionaries who dreamed of better ways to do or to make things and then made their dreams into reality