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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
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Series
Language
English
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The History Makers biography of Henry Ford illustrates the transformation of an American businessman from his building successes and ideals to his emergence as an icon of industry and the modern world. This title starts by analyzing his origins and the stages of his career, then goes beyond chronology to evaluate his emblematic principles and inventiveness. From life to legacy, readers witness the evolution of a man into legend.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
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Language
English
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Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed Americans' conception of space and time; in our era, the microprocessor revolutionized how humans communicate. But in the early twentieth century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown and relentlessly industrious young man named Henry Ford. Born the same year as the battle of Gettysburg, Ford died...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxii, 858 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Wheels for the world, Douglas Brinkley reveals the riveting details of Ford Motor Company's epic achievements, chronicling the success of the Tin Lizzie to the beloved Model A through the glory days of the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Taurus, as well as the revolutionary plants where they were built-Highland Park and River Rouge. Brinkley tells of the amazing acquisitions of Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, and Mazda in the 1990s. His narrative also explores...
9) Henry Ford
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Series
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
c2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the early life of Henry Ford, including his moving to the big city and his success as an inventor, engineer, and pioneer of the automobile.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1960.
Edition
First Aladdin Books edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The early life of the American automotive industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and pioneered in assembly-line methods of mass production.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Exploding the myth that the Soviet silent cinema was limited to political propaganda, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky's the Cigarette girl of Mosselprom is a playful romantic comedy set on the streets of 1924 Moscow, occasionally peeking behind the scenes of the Mezhrabpom-Rus Studios. Yuliya Solntseva stars as a tobacco vendor on the sidewalk outside Moscow's Mosselprom Trade Center, who must juggle the attentions of three disparate suitors: a young cameraman,...
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Language
English
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"John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these...
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Language
English
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Description
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
"The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century...
18) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approx. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
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