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The Carnegie Boys

The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Carnegie Boys

The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country's industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie Steel, they demanded a new ethical relationship with labor and adopted a philanthropic philosophy of paternal capitalism, building libraries, churches, schools, and hospitals. Ultimately, their experiments in industrial democracy and "progressive industrialism" failed, but their efforts formed the root of future cooperative management and employee participation. This chronicle of the evolution and legacy of this influential association offers a new, more complex perspective on Carnegie and demonstrates how he and his lieutenants helped to shape America's view of capitalism.

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0786490543

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9780786490547

The Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver

Two Collaborators in the Cause of Clean Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver

Two Collaborators in the Cause of Clean Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to "green" manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. It covers a number of little known projects such as their efforts to use ethanol as a national fuel, the use of soybeans for plastic production, and the use of waterpower for factories. This study of their collaboration shows how capitalism can drive the green movement and expand American industry.

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078646982X

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9780786469826

The 100 Most Important American Financial Crises

An Encyclopedia of the Lowest Points in American Economic History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

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The 100 Most Important American Financial Crises

An Encyclopedia of the Lowest Points in American Economic History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

Covering events such as banking crises, economic bubbles, natural disasters, trade embargoes, and depressions, this single-volume encyclopedia of major U.S. financial downturns provides readers with an event-driven understanding of the evolution of the American economy. The United States has fairly recently experienced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But crippling financial crises are hardly unusual: economic emergencies have occurred throughout American history and can be seen as a cyclical and "normal" (if undesirable) aspect of an economic system. This encyclopedia supplies objective, accessible, and interesting entries on 100 major U.S. financial crises from the Colonial era to today that have had tremendous domestic impact—and in many cases, global impact as well. The entries explore the history and impact of major economic events, including banking crises, economic shortages, recessions, national strikes and labor upheavals, natural resource shortages, panics, real estate bubbles, social upheavals, and the collapse of specific American industries such as rubber and steel production. Students will find this book an essential ready-reference on key events in American economic history that documents how and why these events led to significant financial and economic problems throughout the United States and around the globe.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440830126

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9781440830129

George Westinghouse

Gentle Genius

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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George Westinghouse

Gentle Genius

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research. He surpassed Edison in electricity pioneering and in managing workers too; but they both lost their companies in the panic of 1907. The bank always wins.

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Algora Publishing

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0875865070

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The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business

An Encyclopedia

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

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The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business

An Encyclopedia

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, management practices, and economic climates, and an examination of the impact of these influences on today's business practices. Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business and illustrates their influence on the labor laws, business practices, and management methodologies of corporate America today. The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia depicts the chronological order of events contributing to the evolution of American business, with an emphasis on the commercial innovations of each period. The book explores the origins of successful brands, including Apple, Wal-Mart, and Heinz; demonstrates the successful collaboration between public and private sectors illustrated by the Erie Canal, Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system; and depicts the commercial impact of major economic events from the Panic of 1857 to the Great Recession of 2010.

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0313398631

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In Search of the Lost Grail of Middle Management

The Renaissance of Middle Managers

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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In Search of the Lost Grail of Middle Management

The Renaissance of Middle Managers

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

This book serves as a pragmatic guide on surviving and striving in middle management.

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University Press of America

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0761825517

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9780761825517

Glass in Northwest Ohio

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D.

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Glass in Northwest Ohio

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D.

The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever. A brilliant inventor, Michael Owens of Libbey Glass automated the glass-making process after 3,000 years of no change. His automated bottle-making machine changed American life with the introduction of the milk bottle, beer bottle, glass jar, baby bottle, and soda bottle. It also eliminated child labor in the glass factories. Owens also automated the production of fl at glass by 1920. By 1930, over 85 percent of the worlds glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of Glass Capital of the World upon northwest Ohio.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439618852

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The Ohio Presidents

Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Ohio Presidents

Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified philosophy and legacy. Ohio republicanism--an alliance of Christianity, populism, nationalism, industrialism and conservative economics--dominated politics across America from 1860 to 1930. Initially several factions in search of a party, it morphed from the anti-slavery Whig Party of Abraham Lincoln and swallowed up a group of single-issue parties, including the Abolition and Free Soil parties, under a national banner. The ghost of Ohio republicanism can still be seen today.

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McFarland

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1476669309

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9781476669304

St. Benedict's Rule for Business Success

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.,Quentin R. Skrabec

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St. Benedict's Rule for Business Success

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.,Quentin R. Skrabec

St. Benedict's Rule is one of a handful of documents, such as the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution that make up the foundation of Western civilization. Benedict's Rule is an organizational blueprint for success and Benedict's original organization is the oldest in the world, spanning more than 1,500 years. The beauty of The Rule is its organizational genius, which has wide application beyond monastic groups. The Rule is a basic textbook to create and maintain effective organizations. It offers today's reader insights into some of the most difficult resource management in business. The Rule is a guide to success for entrepreneurs, managers, and everyone in the world of business. St. Benedict's Rule for Business Success is a must reading for entrepreneurs, managers, and business. Furthermore, it is great for anyone wanting to develop effective organizations, from church groups to Girl Scouts.

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Purdue University Press

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1557533938

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9781557533937

William McGuffey

Mentor to American Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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William McGuffey

Mentor to American Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

Thanks to William Holmes McGuffey, frontier America's literacy rate was the world's highest, producing four generations of American leadership in the arts, science, and engineering. In his much-loved series of readers, McGuffey revolutionized education in America, merging basic principles with classic readings. Throughout Prof. Skrabec's research on American industrialists, the name William McGuffey kept popping up. William McGuffey was clearly the mentor of many of America's greatest capitalists. Almost all had been educated using the McGuffey Reader and developed their belief systems in one-room schoolhouses. Now his story, too, is told.

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Algora Publishing

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087586726X

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Benevolent Barons

American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Benevolent Barons

American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid- to late 1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

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1476620296

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9781476620299

Rubber

An American Industrial History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Rubber

An American Industrial History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts. Fortunately, the industry has always proven as elastic as its product. From the early search for an American location to process the rubber of the tropics to the collapse of the industry, this is the story of rubber in America.

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147661217X

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The Fall of an American Rome

De-Industrialization of the American Dream

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

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The Fall of an American Rome

De-Industrialization of the American Dream

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment. The book is based on the facts and aims to avoid any partisan political viewpoint -- which is not as difficult as it may seem, since both U.S. political parties support free trade economics. The story does not single out the union, the workers, management, politicians, or American voters and consumers, since there is plenty of blame to share. Even the economic policy of the country since 1945, which clearly must carry a large portion of the blame, was accepted for all the right reasons. Free trade was to promote world peace and democracy. No one foresaw the ancillary effects of the 1970s on the United States. Yet this approach has brought destruction upon our cities, workers, managers, and country. The author's perspective is one of a love for American manufacturing and those once-robust cities such as Detroit, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Akron, and so many others, that drove forward the American economy.

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162894062X

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The World's Richest Neighborhood

How Pittsburgh's East Enders Forged American Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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The World's Richest Neighborhood

How Pittsburgh's East Enders Forged American Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

The residents of Pittsburgh's East End controlled as much a 40% of America's assets at the turn of the last century. Mail was delivered seven times a day to keep America's greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a daily non-stop express to New York's financial district. Many of the world's most powerful men - princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came to visit the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It was the first neighborhood to adopt the telephone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which at the time was America's fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading that will satisfy a large cross section of readers.

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0875867979

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9780875867977

Michael Owens and the Glass Industry

By: Quentin Skrabec

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Michael Owens and the Glass Industry

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A biography of the “Owens” in “Owens Corning”—a brilliant but humble inventor with nine companies and forty-nine patents bearing his name. He stands next to Thomas Edison in the pantheon of inventors. Commercial products stamped with his name are ubiquitous in modern life. His inventions are directly responsible for safety glass in car windshields and consistently proportioned medicine jars—and helped to significantly reduce child labor in America. His designs have changed the way we illuminate a dark room and buy pasteurized milk. Michael J. Owens has left an indelible mark in human history, yet his name often has been overlooked publicly, until now. Michael Owens was a driven but unassuming man who shunned the spotlight, wanting only to create. In this first biography of a visionary, artist, and craftsman, Quentin R. Skrabec’s research has uncovered a resourceful, colorful, and dynamic industrialist and inventor. This insightful account sets the stage for Owens by going back to the beginning—the history of glass as an art form. Today, his flourishing legacy includes Owens Corning, employing nearly twenty thousand people in over thirty countries.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455608831

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9781455608836

The Metallurgic Age

The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Metallurgic Age

The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with England's Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially the 19th century, saw unprecedented advances as a passion for technology and learning fueled a period of discovery and of practical application of the sciences. This work explores in depth the connection between Victorian creativity and the advance of engineering. It examines this age of accelerated invention and the evolution of new fields such as metallurgy, automotive engineering, aerodynamics and industrial arts. Numerous unsung inventors--many of whom lost one or more of the frequent patent battles that peppered the era--are remembered here along with the concept of the meta-invention. The result is a revealing look at how metallurgy permeated all areas of Victorian life and affected changes from the kitchen to the battlefield.

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1476611130

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9781476611136

Henry Clay Frick

The Life of the Perfect Capitalist

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Henry Clay Frick

The Life of the Perfect Capitalist

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Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during his lifetime and in his will, while insisting on anonymity. This biography explores the contradictions in this great industrialist's nature and avoids the extremes of both hagiography and denunciation.

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0786456086

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H.J. Heinz

A Biography

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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H.J. Heinz

A Biography

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about H. J. Heinz. Industrial giants Rockefeller, Carnegie, Westinghouse, and Mellon became household names, and Heinz slipped into obscurity. Yet during a time of great transfers of wealth brought about in part by these famous robber barons, Heinz was well known for his humane treatment of his employees, customers, and suppliers. At the same time Heinz built a commercial empire by his use of industrialized food processing before Henry Ford. This book includes 45 photographs many of which are being published for the first time.

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078645332X

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9780786453320

Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

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Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

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Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.

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0786485485

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H.J. Heinz

A Biography

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A Biography

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St. Benedict's Rule for Business Success

By: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.,Quentin R. Skrabec

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Purdue University Press

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1557533938

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Henry Clay Frick

The Life of the Perfect Capitalist

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Benevolent Barons

American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

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American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910

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The Ohio Presidents

Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923

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The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business

An Encyclopedia

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An Encyclopedia

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The Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver

Two Collaborators in the Cause of Clean Industry

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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Aluminum in America

A History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

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Aluminum in America

A History

By: Quentin R. Skrabec

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: while steel won World War I, aluminum won World War II. A generation later, it would make space travel possible and the 1972 Pioneer spacecraft would carry a message from mankind to extraterrestrial life, engraved on an aluminum plate. Today aluminum, along with oil, is the natural resource driving geopolitics, and China has taken the lead in manufacture.

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