The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest

Chronicles of America #37

by Holland Thompson, Allen Johnson (Editor)

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Genres: History

129 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Holland McTyeire Thompson (July 30, 1873 – October 21, 1940), was an American historian and editor.

His editorship, in collaboration with Arthur Mee & E.V. McLoughlin, of "The Book of Knowledge," in twenty volumes and its frequent revisions, and his editorship of "The Book of Lands and People" occupied Dr. Thompson for many years, but he found time to write several other books. Among them were "The New South," "The People and the Trusts," "The Age of Invention," in the "Chronicles of America" series, and "Prisons of the Civil War.”

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting but too-general treatment of the inventions driving the Industrial Revolution through WWI. It gives two major impressions--that inventors tend to be horrible businessmen, and that there was a more exciting time than now when people were devoting their lives and energies to making machines that seemed impossible to make.