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Author : Geoffrey Tweedale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863210396
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Giants of Sheffield Steel: written by Geoffrey Tweedale and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Tweedale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521334587
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Sheffield Steel and America written by Geoffrey Tweedale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Warren
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239222
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Steel, Ships and Men written by Kenneth Warren and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The firm of Cammell Laird originated in a boiler works in 1824 before growing and diversifying to become one of a small number of companies worldwide which could build, armor and arm the largest warships from the operations of a single company group. After World War I, it was reconstructed as a naval and mercantile shipbuilder with important financial interests in steel and rolling stock manufacture. Booming activity in World War II and continuing prosperity until the late 1950s was followed by increasing competition and deepening problems. By the 1980s the firm’s remaining steel interests had failed; in 1993 the once great Birkenhead shipyard closed. How and why did the businesses grow, then experience such problems and eventually collapse? This book tries to find answers. "... this study will be of great value to those researching the development of heavy industry in Britain."—Business History "... a gold mine of information and guidance for future historians."—Nautical Research Journal
Author : Joanna Spear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100929749X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Business of Armaments written by Joanna Spear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Britain's most prominent armaments firms, Armstrongs and Vickers, build their businesses and sell armaments in Britain and overseas from 1855 to 1955? Joanna Spear presents a comparative analysis of these firms and considers the relationships they built with the British Government and foreign states. She reveals how the firms developed and utilized independent domestic strategies and foreign policies against the backdrop of imperial expansion and the two world wars. Using extensive new research, this study examines the challenges the two firms faced in making domestic and international sales including the British Government's commitment to laissez faire policies, prejudices within the British elite against those in trade, and departmental resistance to dealing with private firms. It shows the suite of strategies and tactics that the firms developed to overcome these obstacles to selling arms at home and abroad and how they built enduring relationships with states in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965630
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Iron Men written by Anthony Burton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the ships that went under them; the trains running on their rails; and the frames of the first skyscrapers. But progress was bought at a price and the working classes paid it. The knife grinders of Sheffield were lucky to reach their 30th birthday before their ruined lungs gave up, women chain makers were described as 'The White Slaves of England' and, in a time before health and safety regulations, each advance in technology risked a new kind of deadly accident. Tracking both the brilliant innovation of the period and the hardship and struggle that powered it, this is the story of how iron changed the world.
Author : John F. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000609278
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Industrial Clusters written by John F. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon. This set of original essays by a group of leading business and industrial historians offers fresh perspectives about clusters and clustering. A primary emphasis of the collection is how knowledge is generated and disseminated across a cluster, and whether these processes stimulated innovation and consequently longer-term sustainability. This analysis also prompts questions about which unit of analysis to examine, from the entrepreneurs and firms they created through to the industry as a whole and district in which they are located, or whether one should look outside the region for explanatory factors. Covering regions as diverse as North Wales, the Scottish Highlands, the City of London, the Potteries, Sheffield and Lancashire, the essays have been channelled to provide a detailed understanding of these issues. The editors have also provided a challenging Conclusion that suggests a new research agenda that could well unravel some of the mysteries associated with clustering. This edited collection will be of interest to international researchers, academics and students in the fields of business and management history, innovation, industrialisation and clusters.
Author : Melvyn Jones
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1783408170
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Making of Sheffield written by Melvyn Jones and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering thousands of years and a multitude of topics, the book tells the story of the development from a group of small agricultural settlements into a town and then a modern city. It covers success, disappointments, miserable periods and glorious episodes that have marked the city's evolution.
Author : Clyde Binfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198289975
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Mesters to Masters written by Clyde Binfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the steel capital of the world." This book, written by noted scholars and experts, provides a history of the company and its activities.
Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contest for Control written by Lars Magnusson and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of a specific industry's survival and growth in three countries is a useful resource for research on industrial development in 19th century Europe. Presenting the history of three major cutlery districts in Western Europe during the 19th century - Sheffield in England, Bergische land (Solingen and Remscheid) in Germany, and Eskilstuna in Sweden - the author focuses on each region's industrial development in relation to its socio-cultural context. This work challenges the flexible specialisation thesis often used to explain the seeming persistence of small-scale and decentralised production within the cutlery industry since the 19th century, and argues that growing businesses had to develop competitive strategies for control over important resources.
Author : Don Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493548729
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)
Download or read book What Made the Steel City written by Don Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a cancer sufferer laugh at memories of 'Old Sheffield', and a Russian women realise 'What Sheffield was all about' were beneifits of writing “Orreight mi ol” in 2001. I hope this new book gives Sheffielders and newcomers an insight into what & who has brought fame, fortune and a touch of notoriety to the world's most famous steel city.An 'encyclopaedic dictionary', there are references to a wide variety of people and objects, apart from the towering giants of Sheffield steel. From Florence Nightingale to Pond Street Nora; Chaucer's miller to Shakespeare's Talbot, The Earl of Shrewsbury to the Duke of Darnall; old Niddlety Nod to Spence Broughton; Fowler's Forth Bridge & the Wicker Arches to the Bailey Bridge; The Brooklyn Bridge to Huckleberry Finn. All interspersed with doses of our vigorous dialect which you ought to learn and use.So 'sam 'od' of a copy will tha!
Author : Myrddin John Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131708196X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance written by Myrddin John Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the means for a systematic and critical examination of the dominant Chandlerian paradigm that the long-running persistence of personal capitalism shaped the governance of British manufacturing firms well into the twentieth century and acted to erode their competitive performance. The book helps to identify those aspects of corporate governance that have undergone change, with some critical observations on the magnitude of change and those aspects which have displayed characteristics of continuity. The empirical spine of this book is set out in a series of case studies which provide the basis for the examination of corporate governance in Britain during the period c. 1900 to 1950. By focusing particularly on the responses of a range of businesses to the turbulent environment of the inter-war years, this volume offers an insight into a much neglected, yet vital, area of business and economic history.
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Britain in Old Photographs
ISBN 13 : 9780752459851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)
Download or read book A Photographic History of Sheffield Steel written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Britain in Old Photographs. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheffield has built its worldwide reputation on steelmaking. For centuries the area was renowned for its cutlery and tools and from the mid-18th century Sheffield began to build a reputation for the production of high-quality steels. A century later the city's name was synonymous with steel and today "made in Sheffield" still guarantees the highest quality. Geoffrey Howse has chosen a wide cross-section of photographs of steel and cutlery production in and around the city, primarily from the fascinating collections at Kelham Island Museum. Many famous companies are featured, as are different production methods, a wide range of products from the vast numbers of items manufactured there (including gun barrels, shell cases, and armor-plate), the steelworkers themselves, and individual "Little Masters." This book is essential reading for everyone who knows Sheffield, residents and visitors alike, while anyone connected with the steel and cutlery industries will find that these pictures stimulate memories of days one by.
Author : Non Pratt
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353943
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Giant Days written by Non Pratt and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hit graphic-novel series from BOOM! Studios, the publisher behind Lumberjanes, Giant Days follows the hilarious and heartfelt misadventures of three university first-years: Daisy, the innocent home-schooled girl; Susan, the sardonic wit; and Esther, the vivacious drama queen. While the girls seem very different, they become fast friends during their first week of university. And it’s a good thing they do, because in the giant adventure that is college, a friend who has your back is key—something Daisy discovers when she gets a little too involved in her extracurricular club, the Yogic Brethren of Zoise. When she starts acting strange and life around campus gets even stranger (missing students, secret handshakes, monogrammed robes everywhere . . .), Esther and Susan decide it’s up to them to investigate the weirdness and save their friend.
Author : Graeme William
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Wonders of Land and Sea written by Graeme William and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Charles Barraclough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863211096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Sheffield Steel written by Kenneth Charles Barraclough and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Erickson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521049407
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book British Industrialists written by Charlotte Erickson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1959-01-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1959 book surveys the changes in the social origins and career patterns of the leaders of two British industries during the previous century.
Author : Alan Birch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113661723X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Economic HIstory of the British Iron and Steel Industry written by Alan Birch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1967. This volume explores the history of the British iron and steel industry from 1760, tracking its development, relationship with the British economy, regional hubs, technological developments and the final triumph of steel over iron.
