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The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915

Author : John K. Brown
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868122
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915 written by John K. Brown and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Hilton Book Award from the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society The largest maker of heavy machinery in Gilded Age America and an important global exporter, the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia achieved renown as one of the nation's most successful and important firms. Relying on gifted designers and skilled craftsmen, Baldwin built thousands of standard and custom steam locomotives, ranging from narrow gauge 0-4-0 industrial engines to huge mallet compounds. John K. Brown analyzes the structure of railroad demand; the forces driving continual innovation in locomotive design; Baldwin's management systems, shop-floor skills, and career paths; and the evolution of production methods.

History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1923

Author : Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1923 written by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baldwin Locomotives

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1610601033
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Baldwin Locomotives written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia-based Baldwin began designing and building steam locomotives in the 1830s and gave the U.S. many of its most significant and famous types of steam, and diesel-electric motive power. This history of Baldwin is illustrated with a large selection of rare, superb builder's photos and other publicity images from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with the book's large page size showcasing the detail and crisp quality of the images in this outstanding collection. Author Brian Solomon provides technical histories of each locomotive along with builder's specifications and explanations of how the locomotives were used by the railroads that bought them. These carefully researched histories are keys to understanding the significance of the locomotives and how they worked, and are presented in a manner that makes the book accessible to everyone, while retaining sufficient technical detail to appeal to the most ardent railroad enthusiast.

The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881

Author : C.C. Baldwin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5874721363
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 written by C.C. Baldwin and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1991 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Locomotives that Baldwin Built

Author : Fred Westing
Publisher : Seattle : Superior Pub. Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Locomotives that Baldwin Built written by Fred Westing and published by Seattle : Superior Pub. Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History being forged is what author Westing brings you in every phase of Baldwin progress. Here are more than 300 photographs, many never before printed, linked with the long out of print "History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works - 1831 to 1923," to which Westing gives colorful meaning as he brings the story up through the last days of steam to the Engine 76150, the final and highest serial number. --Publisher.

History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1920

Author : Baldwin Locomotive Works
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376080551
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1920 written by Baldwin Locomotive Works and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Uncle Sam's Locomotives

Author : Eugene L. Huddleston
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253340863
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Sam's Locomotives written by Eugene L. Huddleston and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Sam's Locomotives looks at these magnificent locomotives and discusses how and why the designs were chosen, how they related to existing designs, what standardization entailed, and how each performed.".

In Union There Is Strength

Author : Andrew Heath
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295811
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book In Union There Is Strength written by Andrew Heath and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today. A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people. Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.

Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries

Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226468437
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries draws out the underlying economics in business history by focusing on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries. The essays show that organizations, like people, learn that this process can be organized more or less effectively, which can have major implications for how competition works. The first three essays in this volume explore techniques firms have used to both manage information to create valuable asymmetries and to otherwise suppress unwelcome competition. The next three focus on the ways in which firms have built special capabilities over time, capabilities that have been both sources of competitive advantage and resistance to new opportunities. The last two extend the notion of learning from the level of firms to that of nations. The collection as a whole builds on the previous two volumes to make the connection between information structure and product market outcomes in business history.

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers

Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351153781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers written by Andrew Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history, it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social, labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding of nineteenth-century America.

Engineering Philadelphia

Author : Domenic Vitiello
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469732
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Philadelphia written by Domenic Vitiello and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sellers brothers, Samuel and George, came to North America in 1682 as part of the Quaker migration to William Penn’s new province on the shores of the Delaware River. Across more than two centuries, the Sellers family—especially Samuel’s descendants Nathan, Escol, Coleman, and William—rose to prominence as manufacturers, engineers, social reformers, and urban and suburban developers, transforming Philadelphia into a center of industry and culture. They led a host of civic institutions including the Franklin Institute, Abolition Society, and University of Pennsylvania. At the same time, their vast network of relatives and associates became a leading force in the rise of American industry in Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, and elsewhere.Engineering Philadelphia is a sweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis. Domenic Vitiello tells the story of the influential Sellers family, placing their experiences in the broader context of industrialization and urbanization in the United States from the colonial era through World War II. The story of the Sellers family illustrates how family and business networks shaped the social, financial, and technological processes of industrial capitalism. As Vitiello documents, the Sellers family and their network profoundly influenced corporate and federal technology policy, manufacturing practice, infrastructure and building construction, and metropolitan development. Vitiello also links the family’s declining fortunes to the deindustrialization of Philadelphia—and the nation—over the course of the twentieth century.

Securing the Fruits of Labor

Author : James L. Huston
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807160474
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Securing the Fruits of Labor written by James L. Huston and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his comprehensive study of the economic ideology of the early republic, James L. Huston argues that Americans developed economic attitudes during the Revolutionary period that remained virtually unchanged until the close of the nineteenth century. Viewing Europe's aristocratic system, early Americans believed that the survival of their new republic depended on a fair distribution of wealth, brought about through political and economic equality. The concepts of wealth distribution formulated in the Revolutionary period informed works on nineteenth-century political economy and shaped the ideology of political parties. Huston reveals how these ideas influenced debates over reform, working-class agitation, political participation, territorial expansion, banking, tariffs, slavery, public land disposition, and corporate industrialism. Securing the Fruits of Labor is a masterful study of American beliefs about wealth distribution over one and a half centuries.

Mastering Iron

Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226448614
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Iron written by Anne Kelly Knowles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.

The Power Makers

Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918349
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Power Makers written by Maury Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent bulb; the electric motor-inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The cast of characters includes inventors like James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs like George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen like J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, bare-knuckled battles in the marketplace. In Klein's hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and business competition at its most naked and cutthroat--a biography of America in its most astonishing decades.

Networked Machinists

Author : David R. Meyer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889227
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Networked Machinists written by David R. Meyer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice. In the first book to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, English and American Tool Builders, David R. Meyer examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy.

Encyclopedia of North American Railroads

Author : William D Middleton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027993
Total Pages : 1295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Railroads written by William D Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 1295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent's railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia's over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various aspects of the industry's development: technology, operations, cultural impact, the evolution of public policy regarding the industry, and the structural functioning of modern railroads. More than 500 alphabetical entries cover a myriad of subjects, including numerous entries profiling the principal companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals influencing the history of the rails. Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.

The Railroad

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313014051
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Railroad written by H. Roger Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads altered the landscape of the United States. Within a few decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time and space. And while railroads may seem like an old technology, they continue to be an essential means of transporting both good and people, and new technologies are making the railroads an increasingly relevant resource for the 21st century. This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series tells the life story of all aspects of railroad technology—everything from the structure of the track to communications to what powers the locomotive.