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The Resource Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner
Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner
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The item Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Oklahoma Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Oklahoma Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- This well-researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Cooper had a rare combination of mechanical skills and entrepreneurship. Beginning work in a glue factory, Cooper developed the household uses of gelatin (Jello) and fashioned the iron I-beam from railroad rails, which enabled multistoried building construction. In 1828 he founded the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore which made his fortune. A champion of 20th century communication, he helped fund the first transatlantic telegraph cable and built the first American steam locomotive named "Tom Thumb." When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. He founded The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1859, realizing his dream of free education for working people, regardless of ethnicity or gender. The college empowered thousands of women, a radical notion for the mid-19th century. The Great Hall in Cooper Union provided a platform for most major social movements of the 19th Century, most importantly, Abraham Lincoln's speech that won him his party's nomination for president in 1865. The early feminist leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony also spoke there
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 minutes)
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016)
- Label
- Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story
- Title
- Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story
- Statement of responsibility
- Produced and directed by Janet Gardner
- Title variation
- Mechanic to millionaire
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This well-researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Cooper had a rare combination of mechanical skills and entrepreneurship. Beginning work in a glue factory, Cooper developed the household uses of gelatin (Jello) and fashioned the iron I-beam from railroad rails, which enabled multistoried building construction. In 1828 he founded the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore which made his fortune. A champion of 20th century communication, he helped fund the first transatlantic telegraph cable and built the first American steam locomotive named "Tom Thumb." When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. He founded The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1859, realizing his dream of free education for working people, regardless of ethnicity or gender. The college empowered thousands of women, a radical notion for the mid-19th century. The Great Hall in Cooper Union provided a platform for most major social movements of the 19th Century, most importantly, Abraham Lincoln's speech that won him his party's nomination for president in 1865. The early feminist leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony also spoke there
- Cataloging source
- VaAlASP
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Language note
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- In English
- Original language in English
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Gardner, Janet P.
- Gardner, Janet P.
- O'Gorman, Robert
- Runtime
- 57
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Expansion & Sectionalism (1829-1859)
- Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- Colleges and universities
- Industry
- Inventions
- Philanthropy
- New York, NY
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016)
- Carrier category
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- other
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- vz
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
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- unknown
- other
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 minutes)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
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- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- c
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- remote
- other
- System control number
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- (CKB)4340000000137059
- (VaAlASP)1784743
- (OCoLC)780748213
- (VaAlASP)ASP1784743/marc
- (EXLCZ)994340000000137059
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story, Produced and directed by Janet Gardner
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016)
- Carrier category
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- other
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- vz
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- rdacarrier
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- unknown
- other
- Extent
- 1 online resource (57 minutes)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
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- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- c
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- remote
- other
- System control number
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- (CKB)4340000000137059
- (VaAlASP)1784743
- (OCoLC)780748213
- (VaAlASP)ASP1784743/marc
- (EXLCZ)994340000000137059
- Video recording format
- other
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