Waltham Rediscovered
Author | : Kristen A. Petersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Kristen A. Petersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Author | : Melissa Mannon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738564821 |
Join Archivist Melissa Mannon on an exciting journey that begins at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and travels through the advance of the computer age. Discover Waltham's history in this impressive and unprecedented pictorial collection, with photographs selected from the Waltham Public Library and other Waltham historical institutions. Separated from Watertown in 1738, Waltham shed its agricultural roots and went on to become a world-renowned manufacturing center. Entrepreneurs realized the power that could be harnessed from the Charles River and took full advantage of this natural resource. The Boston Manufacturing Company, founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell and Patrick T. Jackson, was the first mill in the world to mass-produce cotton cloth from start to finish under one roof. Waltham earned its nickname, "Watch City," from the Waltham Watch Company, the largest manufacturer of watches in the world in the nineteenth century. In 1929, Waltham began a third economic boom with the establishment of Raytheon and the electronics industry. Today, Waltham and its neighboring towns on the belt of Route 128 have become one of the country's largest manufacturing centers for computer and electronics equipment.
Author | : James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1998-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807140499 |
In this first modern biography of Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals the complicated and contradictory nature of the man who called himself the "fighting politician." Despite a lack of formal education, family connections, and personal fortune, Banks (1816--1884) advanced from the Massachusetts legislature to the governorship to the U.S. Congress and Speaker of the House. He learned early in his political career that the pretext of conviction can be more important than the conviction itself, and he practiced a politics of expedience, espousing popular beliefs but never defining beliefs of his own. A leader in the new Republican party, he developed a reputation as a compelling orator and a politician with a bright future. At the onset of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed Banks a major general, and, as Hollandsworth shows, the same pretext of conviction that served Banks so well in politics proved disastrous on the battlefield. He suffered resounding defeats in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and the Red River Campaign. Illuminating the personal characteristics that stalled the promise of Banks's early political career and contributed to his dismal record as a commanding officer, Hollandsworth demonstrates how Banks's obsessive pretense of glory prevented him from achieving its reality.
Author | : Tom Melville |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780879727703 |
Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Anthony J. Connors |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438454031 |
Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that city's early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism.
Author | : George Robert Gleig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Author | : James O'Toole |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555535827 |
This collection is both a tribute to the distinguished work of Thomas H. O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, and a survey of the best and innovative contemporary work on Boston's diverse histories.
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Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : George Robert Gleig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1861 |
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