Engineering Philadelphia :

Vitiello, Domenic.

Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello. - 1 online resource (284 pages)

Includes 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.

9780801469749 (e-book)


Sellers family.


Deindustrialization--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century.
Industrialization--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Manufactures--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
Urbanization--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.


Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

F158.44 / .V64 2013

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