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About this book
How American industry passed from workshops to combinations in fifty years — oil, steel, the telephone, farm machinery, the automobile — and what the men who built them did to each other on the way. Hendrick wrote it for the Chronicles of America series in 1919, close enough to the events to have interviewed the survivors. He admires the engineering and is cold about the finance, which is why the chapter on Rockefeller still reads well. Fifty-nine plates, from Bellows and Eakins to a clipper ship off Tuskar Light, give the era's own image of the machinery and the money it moved.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Chapter I. Industrial America at the End of the CIVIL War
- Chapter II. The First Great American Trust
- Chapter III. The Epic of Steel
- Chapter IV. The Telephone: “America’s Most Poetical Achievement”
- Chapter V. The Development of Public Utilities
- Chapter VI. Making the World’s Agricultural Machinery
- Chapter VII. The Democratization of the Automobile
- Bibliographical Note
- About the Author
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