Person
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0000 0000 8425 9466
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Name: 
Adams, Frederick U.
Adams, Frederick Upham
Frederick Upham Adams (American author and scientist)
Frederick Upham Adams (Amerikaans ingenieur (1859-1921))
Upham Adams, Frederick
ਫਰੈਡਰਿਕ ਉਪਹਾਮ ਐਡਮਸ
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1859-1921
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Conquest of the tropics : the story of the creative enterprises conducted by the United Fruit Company
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Conquest of the tropics, 1914 t.p. (Frederick Upham Adams)
Marquis who's who WWW site, June 19, 2018 (Frederick Upham Adams; born Dec. 10, 1859, Boston, Mass., died Aug. 28, 1921; Mech. engr. by private instrn. and practice, 1882-90. Invented electric lamp-post (now standard in U.S.) 1886, electric light towers, 1887; chief smoke insp., Chicago, 1894-97; constructed exptl. passenger train for B.&O. Ry., which broke speed records, 1900. Lit. sec. Dem. Nat. Com., 1896; founder and editor The New Time, social reform mag., 1896-98. Author: Atmosphere Resistance and Its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains, 1893; How Cities Are Governed in Great Britain, 1904; The Bottom of the Well, 1905; The Oil War in Mexico, 1909; The Story of Edward Hines, 1912; Conquest of the Tropics, 1913; Romance of Big Business, 1915; Woodrow Wilson vs. Woodrow Wilson, 1919; The Open Shop, 1919. Home: Larchmont Manor, N.Y.)
OCLC, May 28, 1999 (hdg.: Adams, Frederick Upham, 1859-1921; usage: Frederick Upham Adams; Frederick U. Adams)
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