JUNIOR · AGES 6+
Great Companies: From Lab to Billions
How rockets, cars, cola and phones went from an idea to the whole world.
★ AN OMAHAINDIA ORIGINAL ★
Rockets that land again, cars, cola, phones — Siri visits one great company in every book and finds out how a new idea became something the whole world uses.
HOW DID THEY BUILD THAT?
🔬 A discovery → 💡 a product → 🏭 a factory → 🌍 the world → 🚀 a great company
The Library
50 companies. From a lab to the world. · Books 1 and 2 are free.
Book 1
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SpaceX
The Rocket That Comes Back
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Book 2
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Toyota
The Factory That Never Wastes
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Book 3
Siemens
The Train That Runs on Lightning
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Book 4
Caterpillar
The Machines That Move Mountains
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Book 5
Boeing
The Bird With Six Million Pieces
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Book 6
Airbus
The Plane Four Countries Built
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Book 7
Shell
The Sunlight Buried at Sea
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Book 8
ExxonMobil
From Ancient Sunlight to Fuel
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Book 9
GE Vernova
The Wheel That Makes Lightning
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Book 10
AT&T
The Voice Inside the Wire
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Book 11
Qualcomm
The Whisper in the Air
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Book 12
Ericsson
The Towers That Talk
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Book 13
Tesla
The Car With No Engine
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Book 14
John Deere
The Machine That Feeds the World
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Book 15
UPS
The Science of the Brown Truck
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Book 16
ABB
The Robot Arms That Never Tire
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Book 17
Schneider Electric
The Guardian of the Grid
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Book 18
Corning
From Sand to Light-Speed Glass
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Book 19
DuPont
The Lab That Invented Almost Everything
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Book 20
3M
The Factory of Ten Thousand Ideas
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Book 21
Bosch
The Spark in Every Machine
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Book 22
Honeywell
The Dial That Tames the Weather
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Book 23
Pfizer
The Shield in a Tiny Vial
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Book 24
Roche
The Detectives of the Blood
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Book 25
Novo Nordisk
The Key to a Billion Locks
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Book 26
Johnson & Johnson
From Bandage to Medicine Giant
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Book 27
Nestlé
The Cup That Wakes the World
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Book 28
Cargill
The Invisible Harvest
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Book 29
Visa
The Handshake Inside the Card
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Book 30
Mastercard
The Two-Second Trust Machine
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Book 31
Walmart
The Store That Never Runs Out
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Book 32
Costco
The Maths of the Treasure Warehouse
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Book 33
FedEx
The Race Against the Sun
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Book 34
Disney
From Pencil Sketch to Magic Kingdom
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Book 35
LEGO
The Brick That Builds Anything
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Book 36
Sony
The Pocket Full of Music
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Book 37
Coca-Cola
The Secret in the Red Can
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Book 38
Nike
The Shoe That Learned to Fly
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Book 39
Rolex
The Tiny Engine on Your Wrist
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Book 40
LVMH
From One Trunk to Luxury Empire
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Book 41
Apple
The Glass That Thinks
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Book 42
Microsoft
The Invisible Machine
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Book 43
Google
The Library With No Walls
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Book 44
Amazon
The Box That Crossed the World
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Book 45
Nvidia
The Brain Made of Sand
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Book 46
Intel
The First Thinking Chip
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Book 47
TSMC
The Invisible City on a Chip
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Book 48
ASML
The Machine That Prints With Light
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Book 49
OpenAI
The Machine That Learned to Talk
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Book 50
The Next Great Company
Your Idea
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