Author: Gerald G. Eggert Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
From the opening of the first iron forge in 1716, the iron industry played a central role in the economies of Pennsylvania and the nation. Learn how iron was made, and follow the story of iron production through the experiences of the industry's pioneers and the iron workers and their families whose labor built Pennsylvania's industrial might. (1994). 98 pages, illustrations, list of historic sites related to the Pennsylvania iron industry, and suggestions for further reading.
Author: Gerald G. Eggert Publisher: ISBN: 9781422393468 Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
No State played a greater part in the industrialization of the nation than PA. It pioneered most of the nation¿s basic industries: iron, steel, timber, coal, oil, & railroads. This document sketches the history of the foremost of those early industries, iron manufacture, beginning with construction of the first iron forge in PA in 1716. It traces ironmaking to its subsumption by steel midway through the 20th cent. This book deals with the major aspects of ironmaking: the industry¿s pioneers, its geographic spread, its changing technology, the iron trade, industrial org., labor unions, & how the industry affected the lives of the people in it: ironmasters, iron workers, & their families. Relates iron production¿s contribution to the economies of both PA & the nation. Illustrations.
Author: Dale Richard Perelman Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439660042 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 184
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A lively portrait of the “Steel City” and its millionaires and workers during the late nineteenth century. Steel portrays the growth of iron and steel in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during America’s industrial age, and what it meant for the people who lived there. This history shares the fast-paced saga of millionaire barons Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps, and Charles Schwab, who often plotted and schemed against each other—as well as the story of the underpaid and undervalued immigrant workforce whose desire to unionize united their bosses against them. Here, author Dale Richard Perelman recounts this dramatic struggle and the bloody battles it spawned throughout Western Pennsylvania’s plants, mines, and railroad yards.
Author: Shannon Lefebvre Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542579032 Category : Languages : en Pages : 56
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A Directory of individuals by name and site, who worked for the iron forges and related industries in Eastern Pennsylvania from c 1700- 1810.
Author: Gerald G. Eggert
Author: Gerald G. Eggert
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