Author: Simon N. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Glass Industry in Ohio
Author: Simon N. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Glass City
Author: Barbara L FloydPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The story of Toledo glass—past, present, and future
The Glass Industry in Ohio
Author: Simon N. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Glass House
Author: Brian AlexanderPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250085810
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS |NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game.Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
The Glass Industry in Ohio
Author: Simon N. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Glass Industry
Author: Zanesville, Ohio and the Glass Industry
Author: J. William BarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bottles
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Glass in Northwest Ohio
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D.Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439618852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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 worlds glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of Glass Capital of the World upon northwest Ohio.
Blowpipes
Author: Jack K. PaquettePublisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 9781401047917
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Development of Glass Industry in America since Columbus
Author: Charles H. HendersonPublisher: LM Publishers
ISBN: 2366595131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This book deals with the history of Glass Industry Development in America since Columbus. "The progress of the glass industry in America has been far from constant. It has suffered severe and violent fluctuations, amounting almost to annihilation. Several times it has needed to be born again. But the sum total of these successes and vicissitudes has been the establishment of an industry which, while it is the oldest, is also at the present time one of the most promising and most highly developed of all our industries. To understand its rise and progress, one must be familiar with the elements which go to make it up. Four things are needed to make glass: crude materials; refractory substances for crucibles and furnaces; suitable fuel, and intelligent labor. To make glass commercially, a fifth factor is all important, and that is an accessible market. The history of the industry has consisted in the various possible interchanges between these elements. They are far from permanent..."