Author: Thomas W. Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701257750
Category : Cotton gins and ginning
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Narrative History of Cotton in Alabama
Author: Thomas W. Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701257750
Category : Cotton gins and ginning
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701257750
Category : Cotton gins and ginning
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
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Category : Cane River Creole National Historical Park (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
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Category : Cane River Creole National Historical Park (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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CRM
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Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Confederate Invention
Author: H. Jackson Knight
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that fiercely matched Union ingenuity. H. Jackson Knight's Confederate Invention brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy's industrious inventors and its active patent office. Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, evidence of Confederate inventions exists in the registry of the Confederate States Patent Office. Hundreds of southerners submitted applications to the agency to secure patents on their intellectual property, which ranged from a "machine for operating submarine batteries," to a "steam plough," to a "combined knapsack and tent," to an "instrument for sighting cannon." The Confederacy's most successful inventors included entrepreneurs, educators, and military men who sought to develop new weapons, weapon improvements, or other inventions that could benefit the Confederate cause as well as their own lives. Each creation belied the conception of a technologically backward South, incapable of matching the creativity and output of northern counterparts. Knight's work provides a groundbreaking study that includes neglected and largely forgotten patents as well as an array of other primary sources. Details on the patent office's origins, inner workings, and demise, and accounts of southern inventors who obtained patents before, during, and after the war reveal a captivating history recovered from obscurity. A novel creation in its own right, Confederate Invention presents the remarkable story behind the South's long-forgotten Civil War inventors and offers a comprehensive account of Confederate patents.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that fiercely matched Union ingenuity. H. Jackson Knight's Confederate Invention brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy's industrious inventors and its active patent office. Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, evidence of Confederate inventions exists in the registry of the Confederate States Patent Office. Hundreds of southerners submitted applications to the agency to secure patents on their intellectual property, which ranged from a "machine for operating submarine batteries," to a "steam plough," to a "combined knapsack and tent," to an "instrument for sighting cannon." The Confederacy's most successful inventors included entrepreneurs, educators, and military men who sought to develop new weapons, weapon improvements, or other inventions that could benefit the Confederate cause as well as their own lives. Each creation belied the conception of a technologically backward South, incapable of matching the creativity and output of northern counterparts. Knight's work provides a groundbreaking study that includes neglected and largely forgotten patents as well as an array of other primary sources. Details on the patent office's origins, inner workings, and demise, and accounts of southern inventors who obtained patents before, during, and after the war reveal a captivating history recovered from obscurity. A novel creation in its own right, Confederate Invention presents the remarkable story behind the South's long-forgotten Civil War inventors and offers a comprehensive account of Confederate patents.
Weekend Getaways in Alabama
Author: Joan Broerman
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455613977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
NAMED A "BEST BOOK" BY TRAVEL & LEISURE Like its predecessor, Weekend Getaways in Louisiana and Mississippi, Mary Fonseca's new, updated version presents the same wide choices for excursions that are designed for a two-to-three day stay. Covering cities large and small from Houma to Ruston, from Natchitoches to Lake Charles and in between, it includes Cajun music festivals, historic state capitals, antebellum plantations, swamp tours, outdoor adventures, and much more. Specific entries for lodgings, restaurants, and attractions list addresses, phone numbers, shopping, guide services, major annual events, and traveling instructions. Selected maps also help guide the way to overnight and three-day vacations in one of the Deep South's most interesting states. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mary Fonseca is a freelance writer who frequently speaks to various clubs, organizations, and travel groups. She has written several cover stories for Louisiana Life, including seven pieces of a series entitled "Say 'Yes' to Louisiana," which won first-place honors from the Press Club of New Orleans. Additionally, her writing and features have appeared in Americana, Nation's Business, Traveler, Vista USA, Mississippi, and other leading publications.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455613977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
NAMED A "BEST BOOK" BY TRAVEL & LEISURE Like its predecessor, Weekend Getaways in Louisiana and Mississippi, Mary Fonseca's new, updated version presents the same wide choices for excursions that are designed for a two-to-three day stay. Covering cities large and small from Houma to Ruston, from Natchitoches to Lake Charles and in between, it includes Cajun music festivals, historic state capitals, antebellum plantations, swamp tours, outdoor adventures, and much more. Specific entries for lodgings, restaurants, and attractions list addresses, phone numbers, shopping, guide services, major annual events, and traveling instructions. Selected maps also help guide the way to overnight and three-day vacations in one of the Deep South's most interesting states. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mary Fonseca is a freelance writer who frequently speaks to various clubs, organizations, and travel groups. She has written several cover stories for Louisiana Life, including seven pieces of a series entitled "Say 'Yes' to Louisiana," which won first-place honors from the Press Club of New Orleans. Additionally, her writing and features have appeared in Americana, Nation's Business, Traveler, Vista USA, Mississippi, and other leading publications.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
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Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
Bale O' Cotton
Author: Karen Gerhardt Britton
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890965108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Fact and fiction about the process that takes cotton from the field to shipping to market.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890965108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Fact and fiction about the process that takes cotton from the field to shipping to market.
Books In Print 2004-2005
Author: Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835246422
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3274
Book Description
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
Author: Thomas McAdory Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description