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Author : George Henry Thurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Industries
ISBN : PSU:000012035250
Author : Edward K. Muller,Joel A. Tarr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822986997
Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region’s free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region’s mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region’s economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.
Author : Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226036038
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city. Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.
Author : George Henry Thurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Allegheny County (Pa.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036864143
Author : Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3036459
Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1526 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117328489
Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : PSU:000060160928
Author : Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6D5I
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : NYPL:33433000892624
Author : Thomas C. Cochran
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393334371
Who would have guessed, three centuries ago, that William Penn's "greene" province and "countrie towne" on the Delaware would become the keystone of American industrialization and the source of some of the nation's most important business institutions? Penn's colony was a haven of toleration for people of many origins and beliefs; later, the state of Pennsylvania was a place where human talents and natural resources converged to make possible an affluent industrial society. Both the freedom and the wealth are treasured legacies of the state to the nation.
Author : John Hinshaw
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791489406
Steel and Steelworkers is a fascinating account of the forces that shaped Pittsburgh, big business, and labor through the city's rapid industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century, its lengthy era of industrial "maturity," its precipitous deindustrialization toward the end of the twentieth century, and its reinvention from "hell with the lid off" to America's most livable (post-industrial) city. Hinshaw examined a wide variety of company, union, and government documents, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the steel industry and the efforts of labor, business, and government to refashion it. A compelling report of industrialization and deindustrialization, in which questions of organization, power, and politics prove as important as economics, Steel and Steelworkers shows the ways in which big business and labor helped determine the fate of steel and Pittsburgh.
Author : Geoffrey Tweedale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521334586
The book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.
Author : Kenneth J. Kobus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442231351
Despite being geographically cut off from large trade centers and important natural resources, Pittsburgh transformed itself into the most formidable steel-making center in the world. Beginning in the 1870s, under the engineering genius of magnates such as Andrew Carnegie, steel-makers capitalized on western Pennsylvania’s rich supply of high-quality coal and powerful rivers to create an efficient industry unparalleled throughout history. In City of Steel, Ken Kobus explores the evolution of the steel industry to celebrate the innovation and technology that created and sustained Pittsburgh’s steel boom. Focusing on the Carnegie Steel Company’s success as leader of the region’s steel-makers, Kobus goes inside the science of steel-making to investigate the technological advancements that fueled the industry’s success. City of Steel showcases how through ingenuity and determination Pittsburgh’s steel-makers transformed western Pennsylvania and forever changed the face of American industry and business.
Author : Jay W. Hawkins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781440114946
The Pittsburgh region, while well known for steelmaking, was likewise an important glass manufacturing center in this country's history. This book provides detailed accounts of the region's glassmakers from the first factory dating to 1795 through 1910. Glassmaking started out modestly with small glasshouses in Pittsburgh and up the Monongahela River in New Geneva during the final few years of the 18th century. By the close of the 19th century, the Pittsburgh region was producing more than half of all domestic window glass and the lion's share of most other forms of glass in the United States. The original purpose of this manuscript was to assemble and record as accurately as possible the history of all of the glassworks and the glass manufacturers that operated them in Pittsburgh and the immediate surrounding region. This book was designed to be a reference guide for anyone who is interested in the history of glass in western Pennsylvania. The years companies were operating, where the glassworks were located, what types of glass and specific glass items did they make, and what marks did they use is just some of the information that can be found in this book. There are hundreds of individual companies and name changes listed in this volume. It contains as much information about each company that could practically be included. Even the most minor name or address change was recorded exactly as noted by contemporary sources. As much as possible, contemporary reference sources, such as city directories, early newspapers, maps, and journals were used to provide accurate and complete histories of the glasshouses. Generally, the better-known companies will have much more of their history available. However, every known glassmaker and glasshouse was included, regardless of how little information about them could be found. This book is intended to aid researchers in the determination of the age and the origin of marked pieces as well as narrowing down potential manufacturers of unmarked objects. The liberal reproduction of original advertisements and maps as well as the photographs of glass marks were included to complement and augment the narrative. The format of this book was established to facilitate its use as a reference guide.
Author : Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Reference books
ISBN : UOM:39015058633093