From The Steel City To The White City

Author : Zachary L. Brodt
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990067
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Steel City to the White City written by Zachary L. Brodt and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representation at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more than simply America’s crucible—it was also a region of developing culture and innovation. The 1893 Columbian Exposition presented a chance for the United States to prove to the world that it was an industrial giant ready to become a global superpower. At the same time, Pittsburgh, a commercial center that formerly served as a starting point for western expansion, found itself serving as a major transportation, and increasingly industrial, hub during this period of extensive growth. Natural resources like petroleum and coal allowed Western Pennsylvania to become one of the largest iron- and steel-producing regions in the world. The Chicago fairgrounds provided a lucrative opportunity for area companies not only to provide construction materials but to display the region’s many products. While Pittsburgh’s most famous contributions to the 1893 World’s Fair—alternating current electricity and the Ferris wheel—had a lasting impact on the United States and the world, other exhibits provided a snapshot of the area’s industries, natural resources, and inventions. The success of these exhibits, Brodt reveals, launched local companies into the twentieth century, ensuring a steady flow of work, money, and prestige.

Author : William J. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306844X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel City written by William J. Miller Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industries—Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouse—are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood, confirms his choice to be a journalist, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.

Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445669196
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel City written by Ian D. Rotherham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian D. Rotherham offers an illustrated history of Sheffield, one of Britain's great industrial centres.

Author : John Moses
Publisher : Chicago : Chicago World Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White City written by John Moses and published by Chicago : Chicago World Book Company. This book was released on 1893 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John F. Bauman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973057
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Renaissance written by John F. Bauman and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh.Planning emerged from the concerns of progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh.Over the years a melange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow, political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh's Frederick Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to Pittsburgh's prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward Muller recount the city's long tradition of public/private partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh's key role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form of a city for generations to come.

Author : Sahil
Publisher : INSTA PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9395037865
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virasat-e-Punjab Punjab History and Culture (A Complete Book for all Competitive Exams of Punjab) written by Sahil and published by INSTA PUBLISHING. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : VIRASAT-E-PUNJAB covers different aspects of Punjab's history & culture, from ancient to modern times. It covers different aspects such as the history of Punjab, its economy, culture, Politics, literature, society, Geography, agriculture, and industry. This book will be very helpful for those aspirants, who are preparing for different competitive exams of the Punjab State. The additional chapter on the Punjabi Language (grammar) is very useful to qualify the Punjabi compulsory paper.

Author : Terri L. Glimcher
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557978874
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G is for Golden Years, A Life Enrichment Guide for Senior Living written by Terri L. Glimcher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive life enrichment guide to help create a fulfilling and dignified activity program for seniors. Life enrichment directors and family members will benefit from this all in one resource.

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 939051133X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Knowledge Compendium for IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 & State PSC Exams 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Knowledge for General Studies CSAT - Paper 1 IAS Prelims 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Knowledge General Studies CSAT - Paper 1 IAS Prelims for Civil Services Preliminary Exam covers various Chapters and their important topics. The book is divided into 17 chapters followed by 2 levels of exercises - Simple MCQs & statement based MCQs. The book captures most of the important questions with explanations of the past 12 years of the IAS Prelim exam distributed in the various chapters.

Author : Her›n M˜rquez
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9781575057675
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roberto Clemente written by Her›n M˜rquez and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the baseball superstar from Puerto Rico who, before his untimely death in a 1972 airplane crash, was noted for his achievements on and off the baseball field.