Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780801469749Subject(s): Sellers family | Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century | Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Manufactures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: aEngineering Philadelphia.DDC classification: 974.8/11 LOC classification: F158.44 | .V64 2013Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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