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Tinkerers, mechanics and inventors of Lancaster County

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1983
inventions for efficiency and safety. In 1829 James Wright of Columbia patented the beveled tread wheel. This invention permitted rigid-frame cars to adapt to curvatures in the track, a feature of utmost importance in the days before double-truck railroad cars. Three more Columbians, Samuel Truscott, George
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by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1983
Physical Description
97-109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 87, no. 3
Subjects
Henry, William, - 1729-1786.
Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815.
Getz, Peter.
Brandt, John.
Shirk, Joseph.
Industrial arts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Inventions - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Inventors - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Agricultural machinery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 87, number 3 (1983), p. 97-109Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.87
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Farming and folk society : threshing among the Pennsylvania Germans

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Author
Borie, Beauveau,
Date of Publication
c1986.
Call Number
631.56 B734
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by Beauveau Borie IV ; foreword by Don Yoder edited by Gregory Sharrow.
ISBN
0835716775 (alk. paper)
Author
Borie, Beauveau,
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, Mich
Publisher
UMI Research Press,
Date of Publication
c1986.
Physical Description
xvi, 139 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
American material culture and folklife
Notes
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1974.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [111]-136.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch
Threshing - Pennsylvania.
Farm life - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Sharrow, Gregory.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
631.56 B734
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Anthracite iron blast furnaces in Lancaster County 1840-1900

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1982
furnaces, an amount double that of 1862. After 1872 a gradual decline occurred in the percentage of iron smelted with anthracite coal. Only four per cent of iron smelted in 1889 was produced in anthracite furnaces; eighteen per cent came from furnaces using a mixture of anthracite and coke." �Coincident
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by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1982
Physical Description
78-117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 86, no. 3
Subjects
Blast furnaces - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Furnaces.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Founding.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 86, number 3 (1982), p. 78-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.86
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Robert Fulton, a biography

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Author
Philip, Cynthia Owen.
Date of Publication
1985.
Call Number
926 F974p
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Cynthia Owen Philip.
ISBN
0531097560
Author
Philip, Cynthia Owen.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
F. Watts,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
xii, 371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 355-359.
Contents
Chapters: Pennsylvania roots --Many, many a silant solitary hour --A prospect of considerable profits --An adventurer armed with fortitude --A curious machine for mending politics -- Works of genius and utility -- Wifey, hub, and toot -- Steamboat experiments -- Un succes complet et brillant -- Alias Robert Francis -- Mine is no common cause -- America -- Hudson River triumphs -- Monopolies are justly held as odious -- All the weight on one fulcrum -- The happiness of the earth -- The cupidity of many -- Fickle fortune -- Two such friends -- Useful and honorable amusements -- The nation's benefactor -- Stag at bay.
Summary
Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Fulton flourished in Philadelphia, London, Paris and New York City. Contemporary letters, diaries, paintings and drawings were used in the writing of this book. Fulton begins as a fine arts painter, and then moves on to engineering. He develops the world's first steamboat service, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, he invents a means of raising boats on canals and a system of submarine warfare. Fulton's pursuit of fame and fortune is played out against the backdrop of the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars, the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. The book shows the extraordinary array of artists, scientists, diplomats, businessmen, and intriguing women with whom he interacted.
Subjects
Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815.
Marine engineers - United States
Inventors - United States
Technology - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
926 F974p
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The engineer as promoter : Charles Tillinghast James and the gospel of steam cotton mills

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Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Date of Publication
c1981.
Call Number
677 W776e
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by Thomas R. Winpenny.
Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ,
Date of Publication
c1981.
Physical Description
181 p. 25 cm.
Notes
Offprint from the magazine published by the Historical Society of Pa., v. 105, no. 2 (April 1981).
Subjects
James, Charles Tillinghast.
Cotton manufacturing.
Steam engineering.
Industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Manufactures - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Conestoga steam mills (Lancaster, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
677 W776e
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High frontier : a history of aeronautics in Pennsylvania

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Author
Trimble, William F.,
Date of Publication
c1982.
Call Number
629.13 T831
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William F. Trimble.
ISBN
0822953404 (pbk.)
Author
Trimble, William F.,
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press,
Date of Publication
c1982.
Physical Description
xiv, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 319-330.
Contents
Chapters: Aeronauts --- Inventors ---- Fliers --- Genesis of an Industry --- Decline and Revival --- Big Business and Aviation --- Troubled Skies --- Peace and War --- Postwar Readjustments and Progress --- The Aerospace Age
Summary
From the early days of hot air ballooning to supersonic aircraft, High Frontier chronicles the history of flight in Pennsylvania. Early experimentation with lighter-than-air craft in the nineteenth century was followed by significant advances in aerodynamics, the advent of the airplane, and its gradual acceptance by the public. The state had its own contingent of inventors and aviators, who flew and crashed their homemade machines in countless exhibitions. After World War I commercial flights took wing, including government airmail delivery, and expanded airports, federal and state regulation of aeronautics laid the groundwork for the growth of the industry. [from the publisher]
Subjects
Aeronautics - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Aeronautical engineering industries, to 1980
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
629.13 T831
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Protectionism, wages and strikes in the anthracite iron industry of Lancaster County : 1840-1900

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1982
Republican nor were all Demo- crats "Free Traders." The Haldemans of the Chickies furnaces and C.J. Nourse, superintendent of the Shawnee furnaces, wrote a letter in January, 1870, to Democratic congressmen which was not published in �Becker rolling mill .--Sarah Ann furnace Marietta furnace #2 Marietta
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by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1982
Physical Description
2-23 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 86, no. 1
Subjects
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Coal-fired furnaces.
Rolling-mills.
Strikes and lockouts
Protectionism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 86, number 1 (1982), p. 2-23Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.86
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Grist mills : together with recipes using their products & notes & illustrations of other early mills

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Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
664.72 G869
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0911410457 :
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Applied Arts Publishers,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Grist mills of early America and today.
Original ed. c1978 by Elmer L. Smith.
Summary
"This book focuses on the small neighborhood grist mills which emerged in America and seeks to portray the role they played in the daily rural living. Our space does not permit featuring many of the remaining relics, but the attempt is to offer evidence of the significance of such enterprises as early mechanical sources of energy, as sources of community development, and the relation to industrial and technological advances." [introduction]
Contents: Lanterman's Mill Ohio/ Milling Beginnings/ Early Water Power/ The Mill Stones/ Wheels In Many Industries/ An Iron Making Village/ Modernization/ A Famous Old Working Mill/ Wind Instead of Water/ Down East Windmills/ Little Holland in Michigan/ Amish Energy/ Typical Mill History: Springwell Forge/ Osceola Mills/ Bread And Muffins/ Mountain Mills/ Mill Your Own/ Folklore and Legend/ Inland Mills/ Two Centuries of Muddy Creek Mill.
Subjects
Mills and mill-work
Flour-mills
Additional Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
664.72 G869
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Mill

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Author
Macaulay, David.
Date of Publication
1983.
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David Macaulay.
ISBN
0395348307
Author
Macaulay, David.
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
128 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Subjects
Textile factories - Rhode Island
Mills and mill-work
Cotton textile industry
Textile industry - United States
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The paper makers : early Pennsylvanians and their water mills

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Author
Carter, Jane Levis.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1982.
Call Number
676 C323
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by Jane Levis Carter.
Author
Carter, Jane Levis.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Kennett Square, PA
Publisher
KNA Press,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
viii, 104 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Endorsed by the Okehocking Heritage Society."
Includes index.
Contents
The better kind of men: emigration from England to Pennsylvania, prior centuries // Let there be gryst mills: early colonization by Swedesand English along the Delaware River, their use of water power //Up the noble Darby River: first generation plantations established and mills increased // The ancient mistery of paper making: America's first paper mill, history of paper making and watermarks // They set the spinning wheels: eighteenth century political and social developments, rapid increase in paper making, through the Revolutionary period // Down to the mill: Expansion and conversion of paper mills, schism within the Society of Friends, migration of some paper making descendants. Abandonment of water power-------Supplement:" The Wookey Hole : watching paper being made by hand " - by Margaret Petroskas // " Seventeenth century Swedish grist mills in the Delaware Valley " - by Carl and Alice Lindborg.// " Golden Grain and White Dust : flour making along the Brandywine " - by Ruthellen Pine Davis // " The Levis House : outings to the old homestead in the early 20th Century " - by Elizabeth Shafner Macdugan // " Coates family reminiscences : malaria and early milling " - Henry Schreve
Subjects
Water mills - Pennsylvania.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania.
Papermaking - Pennsylvania
Additional Corporate Author
Okehocking Heritage Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
676 C323
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