Little Visits with Great Americans. Эндрю Карнеги

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       Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram Stevens Maxim, Andrew Carnegie, Hazen S. Pingree, Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, Sir Thomas Lipton, Darius Ogden Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Judson Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert C. Clowry, Herbert H. Vreeland, Samuel Gompers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Thomas C. Platt, Tom L. Johnson, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Whitcomb Riley, Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Dean Howells, General Lew Wallace, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alice Barber Stephens, Frederic Remington, Homer Davenport, Charles Dana Gibson, Frederick Burr Opper, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Henry Merwin Shrady, Marshall P. Wilder, Richard Mansfield, John Philip Sousa, Helen Keller, John Burroughs, Helen Miller Gould, Nathan Strauss, Russell H. Conwell, Frank W. Gunsaulus, Robert Collyer, Robert Laird Borden, Goldwin Smith, S. N. Parent, Andrew G. Blair, James Loudon, Sir William C. Van Horne, Samuel Jones, Philip D. Armour, John B. Herreshoff, Lillian Nordica

      Little Visits with Great Americans

       Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)

       Editor: Orison Swett Marden

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN: 4064066389697

Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

      VOLUME 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       INTRODUCTION

       BOOK ONE INSPIRATIONAL TALKS WITH FAMOUS AMERICANS.

       Success Maxims

       I Hard Work: the Secret of a Great Inventor’s Genius.

       HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A BANKER.

       HIS FIRST EXPERIMENTS.

       A NOVEL METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING.

       HIS FIRST PATENT.

       POVERTY AS AN INCENTIVE TO EFFORT.

       NEVER DID ANYTHING WORTH WHILE BY CHANCE.

       OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE INVENTORS.

       THE WIZARD AT HOME.

       MRS. EDISON IS ALSO AN INVENTOR OF GOOD ABILITY.

       RISES EARLY AND WORKS LONG.

       II A “Down-east” Yankee who Dictates Peace to the Nations.

       THE MAN WHOSE GUNS WILL CLEAR A JUNGLE.

       HIS BRAIN IS BUILT UP OF INVENTIVE CELLS.

       BITING OFF THE DOG’S TAIL.

       PAT’S ANXIETY TO TRY “THE BOSS,” AND ITS RESULT.

       HOW THE MAINE “BACKWOODSMAN” CAPTURED A ROBBER.

       FROM GAS MACHINES TO INCANDESCENT LAMPS.

       THE GENESIS OF THE AUTOMATIC GUN.

       AUTOMATIC GUNS MADE SMOKELESS POWDER INDISPENSABLE.

       HOW LI HUNG CHANG BECAME INTERESTED IN MAXIM.

       HOW A FIRST-CLASS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED.

       III A Poor Boy Once Borrowed Books Now Gives Away Libraries.

       IT IS HARDER NOW TO GET A START.

       MR. CARNEGIE’S FIRST WAGES.

       HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.

       IT IS BEST TO BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM.

       HE WAS AN EXPERT TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.

       THE RIGHT MEN IN DEMAND.

       HOW TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

       CARNEGIE AND THE SLEEPING-CAR.

       THE MARK OF A MILLIONAIRE.

       A FORTUNATE LAND PURCHASE.

       THE HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS.

       A STRENGTHENING POLICY.

       MR. CARNEGIE’S PHILANTHROPY.