Lynda Morgenroth - Boston Firsts, Książki USA
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BOSTON FIRSTS
FIRSTS
40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened
First in Boston and Helped Make America Great
LYNDA MORGENROTH
Beacon Press, Boston
BOSTON
Beacon Press
25 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
www.beacon.org
Beacon Press books
are published under the auspices of
the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
© 2006 by Lynda Morgenroth
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper
ANSI/NISO specifications for permanence as revised in 1992.
Text design by Patricia Duque Campos
Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Illustrations by Joel Holland
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morgenroth, Lynda.
Boston firsts: 40 feats of innovation and invention that happened first
in Boston and helped make America great / Lynda Morgenroth.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8070-7130-7 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Boston (Mass.)—History—Miscellanea.
2. Inventions—Massachusetts—Boston—History—Miscellanea.
3. United States—Civilization—Miscellanea. I. Title.
F73.36.M67 2006
974.4
61—dc22
2005031729
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