From Ox Carts to Jets Roy Ingersoll and the Borg-Warner Story

From Ox Carts to Jets Roy Ingersoll and the Borg-Warner Story by Will Oursler. Published by Prentice-Hall Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1959. 1st Edition. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Torn DJ. Orig owners name stamped inside front cover. 346 Pgs. LCCN 59-15137. The author recreates an age of history-making inventions and important new processes, and intrepid age of men like old Carl Borg. This was an epoch, too, of great financial risks, and of momentous decisions made by men like elegant, imperturbable Charles Davis, who concealed a purpose as strong as steel behind a Harvard man's urbanity. Ingersoll was close to these remarkable businessmen, and many others. Their story-and Borg-Warner's-is a fascinating tale of top-level maneuvers in the farm equipment industry, the automobile industry, the appliance and hard-goods interest. Spanning half a century, it's a story of patents which changed the world's economy, and of the American ingenuity which brought on a time of incomparable scientific flowering. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Description text copyright 2005 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 8657.