By Quentin Skrabec Jr.
ISBN-10: 158980385X
ISBN-13: 9781589803855
The first complete biography of the visionary and craftsman who outlined the fashionable glass undefined. With 9 businesses and forty nine patents bearing his identify, Michael J. Owens is a mockingly inconspicuous impact on way of life. His invention of the Owens Bottle computing device revolutionized the box undefined, making mass-marketed nutrients and drinks either sanitary and regularly proportioned. A big-picture, true-to-life Horatio Alger personality, his computerized innovations have been important to electrical lighting fixtures, meals and beverage packaging, complex optics, and automobile safeguard. The relief of kid hard work used to be an immediate and demanding consequence of his innovations. Born in 1859 to an Irish West Virginian mining family members, Owens, himself a toddler laborer, finally turned referred to as the daddy of venture administration. Quentin Skrabec�s enticing account is the 1st biography in this unpretentious, imaginitive, colourful, and dynamic industrialist and inventor.
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