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For much of the 20th century, the Chicagoland area was a manufacturing mecca due to its central geographic location and ready access to rail and water transportation. The city and suburbs mass-produced a wide range of products, including appliances, bicycles, electronics, furniture, globes, pianos, pinball machines, radios, railroad cars, sporting goods, telephones, televisions, typewriters, tools, toys, tractors, and watches. This book traces the origins of manufacturing in Chicago and...
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Austin Weber is a native Chicagoan with a lifelong interest in the city's unique industrial heritage. As editor of a leading trade magazine for engineers, he has visited hundreds of factories around the United States and written extensively on American manufacturing. This book features many never-before-published photographs gathered from a wide variety of sources, including rare images from the collections of the Chicago History Museum and private...
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- PublisherArcadia Publishing
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1467103071
- ISBN 13 9781467103077
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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