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Book Synopsis Glasshouses and Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region by : Jay W. Hawkins
Download or read book Glasshouses and Glass Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh Region written by Jay W. Hawkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Report on the Manufacture of Glass by : Joseph Dame Weeks
Download or read book Report on the Manufacture of Glass written by Joseph Dame Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bodies of Work by : Edward Slavishak
Download or read book Bodies of Work written by Edward Slavishak and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s major industries were almost exclusively male and renowned for their physical demands, the male working body came to symbolize multiple often contradictory narratives about strength and vulnerability, mastery and exploitation. In Bodies of Work, Edward Slavishak explores how Pittsburgh and the working body were symbolically linked in civic celebrations, the research of social scientists, the criticisms of labor reformers, advertisements, and workers’ self-representations. Combining labor and cultural history with visual culture studies, he chronicles a heated contest to define Pittsburgh’s essential character at the turn of the twentieth century, and he describes how that contest was conducted largely through the production of competing images. Slavishak focuses on the workers whose bodies came to epitomize Pittsburgh, the men engaged in the arduous physical labor demanded by the city’s metals, glass, and coal industries. At the same time, he emphasizes how conceptions of Pittsburgh as quintessentially male limited representations of women in the industrial workplace. The threat of injury or violence loomed large for industrial workers at the turn of the twentieth century, and it recurs throughout Bodies of Work: in the marketing of artificial limbs, statistical assessments of the physical toll of industrial capitalism, clashes between labor and management, the introduction of workplace safety procedures, and the development of a statewide workmen’s compensation system.
Book Synopsis The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh by : James L. Flannery
Download or read book The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh written by James L. Flannery and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original examination of legislative clashes over the singular issue of the glass house boys, who performed menial tasks, received low wages, and had little to say on their own behalf while toiling in glass bottle plants. Flannery reveals the many societal, economic, and political factors at work that allowed for the perpetuation of child labor in this industry and region.
Author :Vesna Žegarac Leskovar Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :1447155114 Total Pages :178 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (471 download)
Book Synopsis Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses by : Vesna Žegarac Leskovar
Download or read book Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses written by Vesna Žegarac Leskovar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses combining timber and glass, two eco materials, with a view to developing an optimal contemporary energy-efficient house with an attractive design. Furthermore, the book connects an architectural design approach with structural research to show the possibilities of stabilizing the building with an increased size of the glazing. Research results where the glazing is considered as a load-bearing structural element are therefore presented in a manner leading to the development of an optimal model of the timber-glass house, considering both the structural and energy related aspects. The presented research work can be useful to designers and future experts in their planning of optimal energy-efficient timber buildings. The study is based on using timber and glass, which were previously neglected as construction materials. With suitable technological development and appropriate use, they are nowadays becoming essential construction materials as far as energy efficiency is concerned. However, their combined use is extremely complicated, from both the constructional point of view as well as from that of energy efficiency and sets multiple traps for designers. A good knowledge of their advantages and drawbacks is thus vitally important, which is shown in the present monograph. Energy-efficient timber-glass houses was selected by the Slovenian National Research Agency as an extraordinary scientific achievement in the field of technical sciences/civil engineering for the year 2013.
Download or read book Glass written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glass Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Glass manufacturing in Canada by : Barbara Lang Rottenberg
Download or read book Glass manufacturing in Canada written by Barbara Lang Rottenberg and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines glass manufacturing in Canada through individual company histories and includes a survey of pressed glass patterns in the National Museum of Man collections.
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-10 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World's Richest Neighborhood by : Quentin R. Skrabec
Download or read book The World's Richest Neighborhood written by Quentin R. Skrabec and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Pittsburgh's East End controlled as much a 40% of America's assets at the turn of the last century. Mail was delivered seven times a day to keep America's greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a daily non-stop express to New York's financial district. Many of the world's most powerful men - princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came to visit the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It was the first neighborhood to adopt the telephone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which at the time was America's fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading that will satisfy a large cross section of readers.
Book Synopsis H.J. Heinz by : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Download or read book H.J. Heinz written by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about H. J. Heinz. Industrial giants Rockefeller, Carnegie, Westinghouse, and Mellon became household names, and Heinz slipped into obscurity. Yet during a time of great transfers of wealth brought about in part by these famous robber barons, Heinz was well known for his humane treatment of his employees, customers, and suppliers. At the same time Heinz built a commercial empire by his use of industrialized food processing before Henry Ford. This book includes 45 photographs many of which are being published for the first time.
Book Synopsis Glass in Northwest Ohio by : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Download or read book Glass in Northwest Ohio written by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever. A brilliant inventor, Michael Owens of Libbey Glass automated the glass-making process after 3,000 years of no change. His automated bottle-making machine changed American life with the introduction of the milk bottle, beer bottle, glass jar, baby bottle, and soda bottle. It also eliminated child labor in the glass factories. Owens also automated the production of fl at glass by 1920. By 1930, over 85 percent of the world's glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of "Glass Capital of the World" upon northwest Ohio.
Book Synopsis Simpson Springs Station by : Dale L. Berge
Download or read book Simpson Springs Station written by Dale L. Berge and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glass Towns written by Ken Fones-Wolf and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central questions facing scholars of Appalachia concerns how a region so rich in natural resources could end up a symbol of poverty. Typical culprits include absentee landowners, reactionary coal operators, stubborn mountaineers, and greedy politicians. In a deft combination of labor and business history, Glass Towns complicates these answers by examining the glass industry s potential to improve West Virginia s political economy by establishing a base of value-added manufacturing to complement the state s abundance of coal, oil, timber, and natural gas. Through case studies of glass production hubs in Clarksburg, Moundsville, and Fairmont (producing window, tableware, and bottle glass, respectively), Ken Fones-Wolf looks closely at the impact of industry on local populations and immigrant craftsmen. He also examines patterns of global industrial restructuring, the ways workers reshaped workplace culture and political action, and employer strategies for responding to global competition, unreliable markets, and growing labor costs at the end of the nineteenth century. "
Author :United States. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Research Division Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :134 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Report on the Manufacture of Glass by : United States. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Research Division
Download or read book Report on the Manufacture of Glass written by United States. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker by : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Download or read book Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker written by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.
Book Synopsis Census Reports Tenth Census: Report of the manufacturers of the United States at the Tenth Census (June 1, 1980), embracing general statistics and monographs on power used in manufacturers. The factory system. Interchangeable mechanism. Hardware, cutlery, etc. Iron and steel. Silk manufacture. Cotton manufacture. Woolen manufacture. Chemical products and salt. Glass manufacture by : United States. Census Office
Download or read book Census Reports Tenth Census: Report of the manufacturers of the United States at the Tenth Census (June 1, 1980), embracing general statistics and monographs on power used in manufacturers. The factory system. Interchangeable mechanism. Hardware, cutlery, etc. Iron and steel. Silk manufacture. Cotton manufacture. Woolen manufacture. Chemical products and salt. Glass manufacture written by United States. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
