Table of Contents:
  • 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny
  • Short-lived technologies : searching for direction
  • "The irruption of forces totally new"
  • A new genus of genius
  • Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe
  • Fires and the high-rise Phoenix
  • The titan city
  • Automobile
  • On the road : of highways and gasoline
  • The back door into the sky
  • Flying down to Rio
  • A boy's life in the new century
  • Inventing a better mousetrap
  • War
  • A funeral in the fifties
  • After modern.