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The First Factories
Pioneer Life In Western Pennsylvania, 1940, p.220
1940 University of Pittsburgh Press ;ISBN: 9780822960447 ;ISBN: 0822960443 ;EISBN: 9780822973621 ;EISBN: 0822973626 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt9qh4zh.18
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Title:
The First Factories
Author:
J. E. WRIGHT
;
DORIS S. CORBETT
Subjects:
Applied sciences
;
Behavioral sciences
;
Business
;
Cash
;
Coal
;
Coinage
;
Crafts industries
;
Currency
;
Economic disciplines
;
Economics
;
Employees
;
Employment
;
Energy engineering
;
Engineering
;
Fossil fuels
;
Fuels
;
Furnaces
;
Heating equipment
;
Human geography
;
Industrial sectors
;
Industry
;
Journeymen
;
Labor
;
Labor economics
;
Macroeconomics
;
Manufacturing industries
;
Metropolitan areas
;
Money
;
Occupations
;
Political geography
;
Shoemaking
;
Skilled trades
;
Slavery
;
Slaves
;
Social organization
;
Social sciences
;
Sociology
;
Technology
;
Token money
;
Towns
;
Workforce
Is Part Of:
Pioneer Life In Western Pennsylvania, 1940, p.220
Description:
AS INDUSTRIES expanded beyond the household, the aspect of the country and of towns changed rapidly. The frontier, in passing, had prepared the way for the growth of industry in shops and factories throughout the region. Early settlers had located coal and iron veins, had learned where salt could be found and where the best stone could be quarried. They had found good soil for bricks and pottery, and sand for making glass. Brickmaking developed rapidly in the 1790’s; it was probably the first industry established in Pittsburgh, for there had been brickmakers with General Stanwix in 1759. And in
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 9780822960447
ISBN: 0822960443
EISBN: 9780822973621
EISBN: 0822973626
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt9qh4zh.18
Source:
Ebook Central Academic Complete
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