Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.

Ned Ludd versus the industrial revolution: are machines the problem? -- Davy versus Stephenson: who invented the miner's safety lamp? -- Morse versus Jackson and Henry: the electromagnetic telegraph -- Edison versus Westinghouse: the AD/DC war -- Ford versus Selden and ALAM: automobile manufacturing -- Wright Brothers versus Curtiss, Chanute, Ader, Whitehead, and other: the first successful flying machine -- Sarnoff versus Farnsworth: the fathers of television -- Rickover versus Zumwalt (and just about everyone else): nuclear submarines and a nuclear Navy -- Venter versus Collins: decoding the human genome -- Rifkin versus the Monsanto Company: battling the biotech world.