Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers
Subtitle: Capital, Class, and Revolution, 1830-1890 (Modern Economic and Social History, 42)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 2304
ISBN-13: 9780754633969
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Economic history; Mechanical engineering; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Careers / Job Opportunities; Business & Economics; Philadelphia; History: American; Pennsylvania; Careers - Job Almanacs; United States; Corporate & Business History - General; 19th century; Economic conditions; Machinery industry; Philadelphia (Pa.)
First sentence: Philadelphia was the most important centre of machine building in mid nineteenth-century United States.