When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer--celebrated as one of the war's three most important generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern Army in 1780, Nathanael Greene was handed troops that consisted of 1,500 starving, nearly naked men. Gerald Carbone explains how, within a year, the small worn-out army ran the British troops out of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and into the final trap at Yorktown....
When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reput...
Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker turned mechanical designer who invented new machines, and new ways to make things, as needed. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine and a one-time competitor of Brown's, joined the firm and brought with him his prized dividing engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The skilled men and women who worked for Brown & Sharpe, who produced and...
Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker turned mechanical designer who invented new machines, and new ways to make things, a...
