Captains of Industry
Or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
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Preface
4:11 -
David Maydole, Hammer-Maker
11:41 -
Icabod Washburn, Wire-Maker
13:34 -
Elihu Burrit, The Learned Blacksmith
13:57 -
Michael Reynolds, Engine Driver
10:15 -
Major Robert Pike, Farmer
11:38 -
George Graham, Clock Maker, Buried in Westminster Abbey
10:18 -
John Harrison, Exquisite Watch-Maker
11:01 -
Peter Faneuil, and The Great Hall He Built
20:47 -
Chauncy Jerome, Yankee Clock-Maker
14:40 -
Captain Pierre Laclede Liguest, Pioneer
10:23 -
Israel Putnam, Farmer
11:49 -
George Flower, Pioneer
19:45 -
Edward Coles, Noblest of the Pioneers, and His Great Speech
12:35 -
Peter H. Burnett, Banker
11:29 -
Gerrit Smith
11:06 -
Peter Force, Printer
12:01 -
John Bromfield, Merchant
12:06 -
Frederick Tudor, Ice Exporter
10:36 -
Myron Holley, Market-Gardener
9:52 -
The Founders of Lowell
14:55 -
Robert Owen, Cotton-Manufacturer
12:29 -
John Smedley, Stocking-Manufacturer
11:23 -
Richard Cobden, Calico Printer
17:19 -
Henry Bessemer
9:34 -
John Bright, Manufacturer
17:59 -
Thomas Edward, Cobbler and Naturalist
12:52 -
Robert Dick, Baker and Naturalist
11:56 -
John Duncan, Weaver and Botanist
10:17 -
James Lackington, Second-Hand Bookseller
10:52 -
Horace Greeley's Start
14:32 -
James Gordon Bennett, and How He Founded His "Herald"
17:28 -
Three John Walters, and Their Newspaper
18:49 -
George Hope
9:17 -
Sir Henry Cole
11:26 -
Charles Summers
11:09 -
William B. Astor, House-Owner
10:36 -
Peter Cooper
29:11 -
Paris-Duverney, French Financier
14:55 -
Sir Rowland Hill
10:21 -
Marie-Antoine Careme, French Cook
9:18 -
Wonderful Walker, Parson of All Work
11:39 -
Sir Christopher Wren
12:48 -
Sir John Rennie, Engineer
10:30 -
Sir Moses Montefiore
8:35 -
Marquis of Worcester, Inventor of the Steam Engine
10:11 -
An Old Dry-Goods Merchant's Recollections
12:07
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A village blacksmith spends years solving the problem of a hammer head that slips off its handle. David Maydole provides the opening example in James Parton's collection of short biographies for young Americans, published in 1884. Parton describes the trials behind an everyday tool and the care that turns practical work into a lasting achievement. The contents extend this interest to clockmakers, printers, manufacturers, engineers and tradespeople who also pursued learning or public service.
Parton connects success in business with responsibility toward others. His preface presents Benjamin Franklin's move from profitable work to electrical science as an example, while the middle excerpt follows Richard Cobden and John Bright in their campaign against the Corn Laws. A section on Henry Bessemer then turns to steelmaking and railway rails. These brief lives offer readers a view of nineteenth-century ideas about useful invention, leadership and the social value of wealth.
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- James Parton
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