+ Captains of Industry was envisioned as an inspirational, uplifting and public relations vehicle as all of North America recovered from The Great Depression. Recorded in the early 1930s by Atlas Radio Corporation of Canada, the transcribed canon comprised fifty-two biographical dramatizations of the more noteworthy industrialists and philanthropists of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Atlas Radio Corporation was founded in 1921 by David Louis Harris, a Jewish immigrant who became one of the pioneering radio, television and electronics manufacturers throughout Canada and The United States. Captains of Industry, recorded in a 15-minute format, emphasized the entrepreneurial spirit, drive, and philanthropic work which characterized each of the fifty-two subjects of the series. Opening with the story of railroad and steel industrialist--and noted philanthropist--Andrew Carnegie, the series went on the spotlight the era's most important movers and shakers of their respective industries: George Westinghouse [Electrical Industry] Joseph Pulitzer [Publishing Industry] Cornelius Vanderbilt [Shipping and Railroad Industries] Leland Stanford [Mercantile and Railroad Industries] John Jacob Astor [Fur Trading, Real Estate and Opium] Cyrus McCormick [Inventor and Agricultural Industry] Charles Lewis Tiffany [Jewelry Trade] 'Diamond Jim' Brady [Railroad Industry] Frank W Woolworth [Mercantile Industry] James Jerome Hill [Canadian-American Railroad Industry] James Eads [Inventor and Salvage Industry] Robert Dollar [Lumber and Shipping Industries] Marshall Field [Mercantile Industry] George Pullman [Inventor and Railroad Industry] Cyrus H. K. Curtis [Publishing Industry] Frederick Weyerhaeuser [Lumber Industry] The Studebaker Brothers [Automotive Industry] George Eastman [Inventor] William Wrigley Jr. [Chewing Gum Industry] Klaus Spreckles [Sugar Industry] J. Pierpont Morgan [Banking and Finance Industries] James Buchanan Duke [Tobacco and Power Industries] Adolph Simon Ochs [Publishing Industry] Milton S. Hershey [Confection Industry] Frank A. Munsey [Publishing Industry] Eleuthère Irénée du Pont [Chemical Industries] Elbert Henry Gary [Lawyer and Steel Industry] James Couzens [U.S. Senator and Banking and Automotive Industries] Edward Henry Harriman [Railroad Industry] Elias 'Lucky' Baldwin [Hospitality and Mining Industries] Mark Hanna [U. S. Senator and Shipping Industry] Philip Armour [Meatpacking Industry] John Hammond [Inventor and Radio Industry] Thomas Alva Edison [Inventor and Telecommunications Industry] John Davison Rockefeller [Petroleum Industry] King Camp Gillette [Inventor and Manufacturing Industry] Henry Clay Frick [Inventor and Manufacturing Industry] Theodore Newton Vail [Telecommunications Industry] Edward L. Doheny [Petroleum Industry] Julius Rosenwald [Mercantile and Manufacturing Industries] Otto Hermann Kahn [Banking and Finance Industries] John Henry Patterson [Manufacturing Industry] Jay Gould [Railroad Industry] Mark Hopkins, Jr. [Railroad Industry] Sidney Wilmot Winslow [Footwear Manufacturing Industry] John North Willys [Automotive Industry] Frank A Vanderlip [Banking Industry] Henry Flagler [Railroad and Real Estate Industries] John Wanamaker [U. S. Postmaster General and Mercantile and Advertising Industries] Phineas T Barnum [Entertainment Industry] William Andrews Clark, Sr. [Mining, Railroad and Banking Industries] Click here to read more about Captains Of Industry