Tyden, An Ordinary Man Who Made Others Extraordinary

Doug VanderLaan

ISBN 10: 069292759X / ISBN 13: 9780692927595

Published by J-ad Graphics, Inc, 2017

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G069292759XI3N00

Synopsis:

Hastings, MI - Somehow, it just wouldn't seem fair for one American community to claim Swedish immigrant Emil Tyden as its own. Not Chicago, where he offered his immense entrepreneurial talents to build infrastructure for the 1893 World's Fair and where one of his inventions was featured in the Sunday "Dick Tracy" newspaper cartoon series. And not in New Sweden, Idaho, where Tyden introduced the "Idaho Baked Potato" or in Detroit where John and Horace Dodge worked hard to convince the manufacturing genius to join their new Dodge Motor Company. People in the Wild West might still tell stories of how Tyden used his famed boxcar seal to match wits with some of the era's most notorious train robbers like Butch Cassidy and railroad bandits like "Gentleman" Bill Carlisle. And at the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois, across the river from Moline, history will always record Tyden's leadership in retrofitting an outdated military arsenal in time to confront advancing World War I German troops in Europe. Tyden's remarkable life and stories are now chronicled in the new book, An Ordinary Man who Made Others Extraordinary, being released by J-ad Graphics, Inc., in Hastings, Michigan where Tyden spent his most productive years and where he inspired a community development model by which the town still thrives today.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tyden, An Ordinary Man Who Made Others ...
Publisher: J-ad Graphics, Inc
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket