American Science and Invention - A Pictorial History: The Fabulous Story of How American Dreamers, Wizards, and Inspired Tinkerers Converted A Wilderness into the Wonder of the World

ix, 437 pp. "...from Franklin's experiments with electricity to the dawn of the Atomic Age. More than one thousand rare documentary pictures are combined with 130,000 words of dramatic narrative in this, the first history of its kind ever published."