There's a series on Netflix, The Men Who Built America, and it's got me started on an industrial revolution era kick. In this show you'll get an overview of Vanderbilt (ships and railroads), Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie (steal), J.P. Morgan (bank tycoon), and Ford (who doesn't really fit with the other's for many reasons). This week we learned about Nickola Tesla, in The Master of Lightning. He was actually more influential in the spread of the availability of electricity throughout our country. It seems to me he may have even been somewhat Spectrum-ish, given his aversions to shaking hands and tendency towards seclusion.
Still he was good friends with Mark Twain and many other famous folks of the day, so it's wasn't like he was a total recluse. He was just very devoted to his interests. Today, I found my eldest child looking up the various early model Ford vehicles in the encyclopedia. He does have an interest in categorizing items by year. His ideal historical timeline would map out all the dates of inventions.
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