[PDF] Centennial Scrapbook Machinery Hall eBook

Author : Philip Scranton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0691186928

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Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through American specialty firms and districts, where, for example, we meet printers and jewelry makers in New York and Providence, furniture builders in Grand Rapids, and tool specialists in Cincinnati. Throughout he highlights the benevolent as well as the strained relationships between workers and proprietors, the lively interactions among entrepreneurs and city leaders, and the personal achievements of industrial engineers like Frederic W. Taylor. Scranton shows that in sectors producing goods such as furniture, jewelry, machine tools, and electrical equipment, firms made goods to order or in batches, and industrial districts and networks flourished, creating millions of jobs. These enterprises relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic pricing to generate profit streams. They built interfirm alliances to manage markets and fashioned specialized institutions--trade schools, industrial banks, labor bureaus, and sales consortia. In creating regional synergies and economies of scope and diversity, the approaches of these industrial firms represent the inverse of mass production. Challenging views of company organization that have come to dominate the business world in the United States, Endless Novelty will appeal to historians, business leaders, and to anyone curious about the structure of American industry.

Author : State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Centennial Exhibition
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Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings on the different Massachusetts exhibitions presented at the 1876 Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The clippings focus on Massachusetts organizations planning to attend the Centennial exhibition as well as the planning, construction, completion, and opening of the Centennial. The scrapbook also contains lists of officers of the U.S. Centennial Commission, letters from committees, images of buildings including the agricultural, Art Gallery, and Machinery Hall.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0226923258

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Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.

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Page : pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1934*
Category : Rochester (N.Y.)
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Scrapbook of clippings on the centennial of Rochester, N.Y.