Download or read book A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 written by John Leander Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 written by John Leander Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 written by John Leander Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 written by John Leander Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age written by Ross Thomson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. This study argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Typothetae of the City of New York written by Typothetae of the City of New York. Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell 1775 1817 written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to Boston harbor. His work was instrumental in establishing domestic industry for the United States and brought the Industrial Revolution to the United States. From 1810 to the start of the War of 1812, he traveled through Great Britain, where he saw the tremendous changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, starting with cotton textiles. On his return to the United States he focused on establishing a domestic textile industry to replace imported goods. With his brother-in-law, Patrick Tracy Jackson, he built the Boston Manufacturing Company at Waltham-America's first integrated mill. With his star mechanic, Paul Moody, he developed a power loom and other machines suitable for local conditions. The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817 tells the story of this amazing man and the great success of the Boston Manufacturing Company, which spurred the American industrial revolution. Francis Cabot Lowell's method-a detailed investment plan, cheap raw materials and power, a motivated labor force, a sound marketing plan, and, above all, modern technology-became the standard for the American factory of the nineteenth century. When Francis Cabot Lowell died, his associates established America's first industrial city, and named it Lowell in his honor.
Download or read book The Statistical History of the United States from Colonial Times to the Present written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coffee written by William H. Ukers and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen years ago the author of this work made his first trip abroad to gather material for a book on coffee. Subsequently he spent a year in travel among the coffee-producing countries. After the initial surveys, correspondents were appointed to make researches in the principal European libraries and museums; and this phase of the work continued until April, 1922. Simultaneous researches were conducted in American libraries and historical museums up to the time of the return of the final proofs to the printer in June, 1922. Ten years ago the sorting and classification of the material was begun. The actual writing of the manuscript has extended over four years. Among the unique features of the book are the Coffee Thesaurus; the Coffee Chronology, containing 492 dates of historical importance; the Complete Reference Table of the Principal Kinds of Coffee Grown in the World; and the Coffee Bibliography, containing 1,380 references.
Download or read book Child Labor in America written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.
Download or read book Promiscuously Mixed Together written by Scott Anthony Miltenberger and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technological Innovation and Economic Change in the Iron Industry 1850 1920 written by Robert A. Battis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989 this study examines some new facets in the development of the iron industry in the USA between 1839 and 1921 through the study of an individaul form, namely the Thoms Iron Company, one of the leading merchant furnace companies. It charts the end of the anthracite iron age and the changes which brought about the advent of open-hearth steel and integrated steel works. The book discusses the problems the managers of the firm faced with the appearance of industrial innovations which tended to undermine their firm's very existence and provided a new set of optimal conditions necessary for the survival of the firm. It provides a clear understanding of the destructive forces of industrial innovation and the place of creative entrepreneurship in the survival of the firm.
Download or read book Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing written by Jeremy Atack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known. This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this gap in our knowledge by providing comprehensive empirical evidence on the status of economies of scale in mid-nineteenth century manufacturing industry. This evidence is in the form of production function estimates made using data from the manuscripts of the federal censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860 and 1870.
Download or read book Life on the Middlesex Canal written by Alan Seaburg and published by alan seaburg. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular essays illustrating the "Golden Age" (1803-1835) of the Middlesex Canal.
Download or read book 19 Century America written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates and discusses 300 prime objects displayed in the 1970 exhibition of American decorative arts displayed during the Centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1970. Presented as a series of lavish room settings and galleries, the exhibit included pieces in the 19th century’s principal styles of furniture and decorative arts--Federal, Empire, Gothic, rococo, Renaissance, art nouveau, and reform. Objects featured in this book include various pieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and metalwork from the Museum’s American wing.
Download or read book Intercolonial Aspects of American Culture on the Eve of the Revolution written by Michael Kraus and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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