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A century of industrial progress / edited by Frederick William Wile ... with a foreword by Herbert Hoover.
LIBRA 337.02 W64
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industries--United States--History.
- Industries.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 581 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Pub. for the American institute of the city of New York by Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928.
- Contents:
- The American institute, by E. F. Murdock.
- Editor's note.
- The forces of our economic progress, by H. Hoover.
- A hundred years of agriculture, by A. Capper.
- The lumber industry, by J. W. Blodgett.
- Ships and shipping, by E. N. Hurle.
- Foreign trade, by J. Klein.
- Mines and mining, by H. F. Bain.
- Steel
- its part in American progress, by C. M. Schwab.
- Machinery and power, by D. S. Kimball.
- Cotton textile industry, by W. D. Hines.
- Pulp and paper, by H. P. Baker.
- A century of progress in the printing industry, by E. F. Eilert.
- Journalism and publishing, by J. W. Brown.
- Railroads, by L. F. Loree.
- Banking in the United States, by C. E. Mitchell.
- Industrial combinations (trusts) by J. W. Jenks.
- The petroleum age, by R. G. Stewart.
- Research, science and invention, by M. Holland.
- Industrial chemistry, by C. M. A. Stine.
- Department store merchandising, by J. I. Straus.
- Meat packing, by F. E. White.
- Building construction, by H. White.
- Labor and America's century of industry, by W. Green.
- The electric industry, by O. D. Young.
- Telegraphy and telephony, by F. B. Jewett.
- Commercial associations, by J. H. Fahey.
- Mail order merchandising, by J. Rosenwald.
- Motorizing the world, by J. N. Willys.
- Motion pictures, by W. H. Hays.
- Aviation, by H. F. Guggenhiem.
- Radio, by J. G. Harbord.
- The industrial museum, by F. C. Brown.
- Notes:
- Published by the American institute of the city of New York to commemorate its centenary.
- OCLC:
- 1562489
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