Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monroe County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Monroe County, New York
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monroe County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Monroe County, Michigan
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monroe County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Tioga County, New York
Author: The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Broome County, New York (with a Complete Road Map of the County).
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broome County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Livingston County, New York
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livingston County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Farm Journal Illustrated
Author: Wilmer Atkinson CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broome County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Clock and Compass
Author: Mark MonmonierPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight with US troops during the Spanish-American War. After the war he worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Farmers had started buying cars and trucks, but without adequate maps and signage townsfolk couldn't visit them and they couldn't easily find each other. Plato's solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city folk. He patented his invention and tried to sell it to the Post Office, which took a pass-their business was delivering mail, not facilitating travel. Because the clockface's hours provided the directions, he called his strategy the "Clock System." Some Chicago promoters became intrigued but after their plans failed to gel, he decided to produce the maps himself. Rural sociologists at Cornell, who considered the Clock System an antidote for rural isolation, encouraged him to start a business in Ithaca, where he mapped a dozen New York counties until the Great Depression intervened and he left to work as a government mapmaker in Washington. Between 1936 (after his patent had expired) and 1940, some Ithaca businessmen validated the concept by making "Compass System" maps for half the state's counties"--
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Farm Register of All Farms of Monroe County, New York
Author: Rural Directories, Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monroe County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Agriculturalist Farm Directory and Reference Book, Monroe and Livingston Counties, New York
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013988165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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