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Metallurgic Age
The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science
Häftad, 2005
486 kr
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Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with England's Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially …
H.J. Heinz
A Biography
Häftad, 2009
327 kr
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Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about the founder of this global brand, H. J. Heinz. Whereas industrial giants Rockefeller, Carnegie, Westinghouse, and Mellon are household names, Heinz has slipped into obscurity. …
Henry Clay Frick
The Life of the Perfect Capitalist
Häftad, 2010
517 kr
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Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during …
Edward Drummond Libbey
A Biography of the American Glassmaker
Häftad, 2011
491 kr
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Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his …
Carnegie Boys
The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 …
Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver
Two Collaborators in the Cause of Clean Industry
Häftad, 2013
502 kr
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Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to "green" manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. It covers a number of little known projects such as their efforts to use ethanol as a national fuel, the …
Rubber
An American Industrial History
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts. Fortunately, the industry has always …
Benevolent Barons
American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community …
Aluminum in America
A History
Häftad, 2017
502 kr
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The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: …
Ohio Presidents
Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified …
