Author: Kenneth Warren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charles Schwab was known to his employees, business associates, and competitors as a congenial and charismatic person-a 'born salesman.' Yet Schwab was much more than a salesman-he was a captain of industry, a man who streamlined and economized the production of steel and ran the largest steelmaking conglomerate in the world. A self-made man, he became one of the wealthiest Americans during the Gilded Age, only to die penniless in 1939.Schwab began his career as a stake driver at Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel works in Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen. By thirty-five, he was president of Carnegie Steel. In 1901, he helped form the U.S. Steel Corporation, a company that produced well over half the nation's iron and steel. In 1904, Schwab left U.S. Steel to head Bethlehem Steel, which after twelve years under his leadership, became the second-largest steel producer in America. President Woodrow Wilson called on Schwab to head the Emergency Fleet Corporation to produce merchant ships for the transport of troops and materials abroad during World War I.Kenneth Warren presents a compelling biography that chronicles the startling success of Schwab's business career, his leadership abilities, and his drive to advance steel-making technology and operations. Through extensive research and use of previously unpublished archival documentation, Warren offers a new perspective on the life of a monumental figure-a true visionary-in the industrial history of America.
Industrial Genius
Author: Kenneth Warren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charles Schwab was known to his employees, business associates, and competitors as a congenial and charismatic person-a 'born salesman.' Yet Schwab was much more than a salesman-he was a captain of industry, a man who streamlined and economized the production of steel and ran the largest steelmaking conglomerate in the world. A self-made man, he became one of the wealthiest Americans during the Gilded Age, only to die penniless in 1939.Schwab began his career as a stake driver at Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel works in Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen. By thirty-five, he was president of Carnegie Steel. In 1901, he helped form the U.S. Steel Corporation, a company that produced well over half the nation's iron and steel. In 1904, Schwab left U.S. Steel to head Bethlehem Steel, which after twelve years under his leadership, became the second-largest steel producer in America. President Woodrow Wilson called on Schwab to head the Emergency Fleet Corporation to produce merchant ships for the transport of troops and materials abroad during World War I.Kenneth Warren presents a compelling biography that chronicles the startling success of Schwab's business career, his leadership abilities, and his drive to advance steel-making technology and operations. Through extensive research and use of previously unpublished archival documentation, Warren offers a new perspective on the life of a monumental figure-a true visionary-in the industrial history of America.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charles Schwab was known to his employees, business associates, and competitors as a congenial and charismatic person-a 'born salesman.' Yet Schwab was much more than a salesman-he was a captain of industry, a man who streamlined and economized the production of steel and ran the largest steelmaking conglomerate in the world. A self-made man, he became one of the wealthiest Americans during the Gilded Age, only to die penniless in 1939.Schwab began his career as a stake driver at Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel works in Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen. By thirty-five, he was president of Carnegie Steel. In 1901, he helped form the U.S. Steel Corporation, a company that produced well over half the nation's iron and steel. In 1904, Schwab left U.S. Steel to head Bethlehem Steel, which after twelve years under his leadership, became the second-largest steel producer in America. President Woodrow Wilson called on Schwab to head the Emergency Fleet Corporation to produce merchant ships for the transport of troops and materials abroad during World War I.Kenneth Warren presents a compelling biography that chronicles the startling success of Schwab's business career, his leadership abilities, and his drive to advance steel-making technology and operations. Through extensive research and use of previously unpublished archival documentation, Warren offers a new perspective on the life of a monumental figure-a true visionary-in the industrial history of America.
Industrial Genius Samuel Slater
Author: Lewis S. Miner
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A biography of the Englishman who, concerned over the heavy human toll the Industrial Revolution was taking in England, left for America despite laws trying to keep textile workers from emigrating, and established the American textile industry.
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A biography of the Englishman who, concerned over the heavy human toll the Industrial Revolution was taking in England, left for America despite laws trying to keep textile workers from emigrating, and established the American textile industry.
Industrial Directory and Shippers' Guide
Author: New York Central Lines
Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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The Industrial Sector
Author: Harry Beller Yoshpe
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher:
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Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Handbook to the Industrial Department of the International Exhibition, 1862
Author: Robert Hunt
Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Oliver Evans, Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution
Author: Eugene S. Ferguson
Publisher: Hagley Museum & Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Publisher: Hagley Museum & Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Problems of American Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business
Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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History of the Panama Canal
Author: Ira Elbert Bennett
Publisher:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
History of the Panama Canal.
Author: Ira E. Bennett
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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