Reviews for The Memoir Of Hayward Augustus Harvey By His Sons

The average rating for The Memoir Of Hayward Augustus Harvey By His Sons based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-11 00:00:00 Lukasz Gzella This is the review for the audio version of this book, which I believe it is abbreviated so not sure what is missing. Overall, well worth checking out this book for anyone interested in business/economic history. The book covers numerous advancements made by Americans over the last few centuries. Most readers, including me, would have read books/articles on most of the inventions/developments made by America so some may think the book doesn't offer much. But I was pleasantly surprised to read about topics or details that aren't widely discussed. I think one of the strengths of this book is that it covers a diverse set of inventions/advancements over several hundred years; it doesn't focus on specific time period or type of invention. If you are looking for highly detailed background on inventions, this book probably isn't for you (each topic is only around 10 pages long). Some may not like this, almost random short, coverage but I like it. This is the type of book that will expand your knowledge horizon. For instance, in addition to the important, but widely covered, revolutions such as Edison's light bulb/electricity and the intercontinental railroad, the book touches on topics such as the Colt revolver (gun), CNN (all-news cable news), and Ebay (online shopping site). Most people may know quite a bit about Google but how many know much about Ebay? I have read about railroads in the 1800's before but didn't know much about the Colt revolver (which played a big, albeit brutal, part in the 1800's). If you want a gain a cursory understanding of major American inventions over the last few hundread years, you can't go wrong with this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-13 00:00:00 KiGa Pride This book is about Innovators, not inventors, although some innovators are inventors too. Innovators are the ones that can take a new idea and make something of it (Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Ted Turner, etc). This book is about a diverse group of innovators, in all areas, from powered flight to venture capital, credit ratings to MRI's, and what got them to where their innovation was recognized. This book gives you the history of these innovators and the people around them (both the good and the bad parts of their history) as well as a little bit of the innovation that they were behind. There is a lot of information here, be prepared for a lot of reading, but it is very interesting stuff, and written in a way that you can put it down for a while and pick it back up again with no problem.