Skip to main content

Indkøbskurv

Du får VIP-behandling!

Vare(r) ikke tilgængelig til køb
Gennemgå din indkøbskurv. Du kan fjerne de(n) tilgængelige vare(r) nu, ellers fjerner vi det automatisk ved kassen.
varervare
varervare

Anbefalet til dig

Loading...
  • The Invention of the Sewing Machine

    Serier serie Inventions
    The practical sewing machine is not the result of one man’s genius, but rather the culmination of a century of thought, work, trials, failures, and partial successes of a long list of inventors. History is too quick to credit one or two men for an important invention and to forget the work that preceded and prodded each man to contribute his share.Since the sewing machine has been considered by ... Læs mere

    19,18 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

Personer, der læser dette, syntes også om...

  • Forgotten Bones

    Uncovering a Slave Cemetery

    An ordinary construction project uncovers an extraordinary archaeological discovery.Imagine you're watching a backhoe dig up the ground for a construction project when a round object rolls down a pile of dirt and stops at your feet. You pick it up, brush off some dirt, and realize you're holding a skull!This is exactly what happened in Albany, New York, in 2005. Workers were putting in new sewer ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • The Founding Gardeners

    How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

    af Andrea Wulf ...
    A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to ... Læs mere

    103,24 kr.

  • A Guide Book of Civil War Tokens

    Serier serie Official Red Book
    Civil War tokens are tangible reminders of American history. These small, cent-sized tokens served as emergency “money” during the small-change shortage of 1862–1865. Today they are highly collectible, and A Guide Book of Civil War Tokens elevates the collecting and study of these once-shunned imitation cents to a new level of scholarship and accessibility. Novice and experienced collectors alike, ... Læs mere

    91,36 kr.

  • Great Discoveries and Inventions by African-Americans

    Fourth Edition

    af David M. Foy ...
    Great Discoveries and Inventions by African Americans is a collection of inventors, idealist, entrepreneurs and visionaries whose inventions revolutionized American industries and history.In this compelling 4th volume, the facts are unobtrusively woven into a piece rich in the American heritage of ingenuity, determination and perseverance. Many have little knowledge of these brilliant inventors ... Læs mere

    36,25 kr.

  • Picturing Victorian America

    Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880

    Redigeret af Nancy Finlay ...
    Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009)Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010)This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main ... Læs mere

    163,49 kr.

  • Connecticut Needlework

    Women, Art, and Family, 1740–1840

    Winner of the Connecticut Book Award (2011)Winner of the Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit (2012)Connecticut women have long been noted for their creation of colorful and distinctive needlework, including samplers and family registers, bed rugs and memorial pictures, crewel-embroidered bed hangings and garments, silk-embroidered pictures of classical or religious scenes, ... Læs mere

    190,86 kr.

  • Salem West Virginia 1776 ~ 1976

    SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA A small town with a big spirit. Every town has its stories, and Salem is no exception. When Salem was still in the state of Virginia, Preston Randolph, a renowned educator and pillar of the community, campaigned for Abraham Lincoln. Within these pages you will learn about the person who manufactured Salem's first electricity; the first man to sell oil that was produced and ... Læs mere

    89,11 kr.

  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    af Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Læs mere

    63,82 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Invention Of The Sewing Machine

    The Invention Of The Sewing Machine by Grace Rogers Cooper. ... Læs mere

    4,55 kr.

  • The Rose Man of Sing Sing

    A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism

    Serier serie Communications and Media Studies
    Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic , Chapin set the pace ... Læs mere

    264,50 kr.

  • Edison

    Serier serie Images of America
    Edison, named for its most famous resident, inventor Thomas Alva Edison, can be called the birthplace of modern life as we know it. It was here at his Menlo Park complex that Thomas Edison created the incandescent electric lightbulb and 300 other inventions, providing residents with not only a place of employment but also a source of national pride. Known as Raritan Township until 1954, Edison was ... Læs mere

    82,63 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus