Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century : Dayton and the Inventing of America
- ISBN-10
- 1882203135
- ISBN-13
- 9781882203130
- Category
- Dayton (Ohio)
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Orange Frazer PressInc
- Author
- Mark Bernstein
Description
Grand Eccentrics is a group biography of a half dozen inventiors, and eccentrics--Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Kettering, John H.Patterson, Arthur Morgan, and James Cox--who explored those new possibilities. They did much to create theAmerican 20th century that iss now yielding to the rise of the electronic technologies and global marketplace. 75 photographs.
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