LEADER 04302nam 22007211 450 001 9910807751703321 005 20230803033115.0 010 $a0-8014-6973-2 010 $a0-8014-6974-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469749 035 $a(CKB)3710000000054895 035 $a(OCoLC)865508821 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10791288 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001047444 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12413607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047444 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11160048 035 $a(PQKB)10635148 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138538 035 $a(OCoLC)966766669 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51849 035 $a(DE-B1597)478514 035 $a(OCoLC)979910363 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469749 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10791288 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683624 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000054895 100 $a20130326d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEngineering Philadelphia $ethe Sellers family and the industrial metropolis /$fDomenic Vitiello 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-52342-8 311 $a0-8014-5011-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aManufacturing 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. 330 $aThe Sellers brothers, Samuel and George, came to North America in 1682 as part of the Quaker migration to William Penn's new province on the shores of the Delaware River. Across more than two centuries, the Sellers family-especially Samuel's descendants Nathan, Escol, Coleman, and William-rose to prominence as manufacturers, engineers, social reformers, and urban and suburban developers, transforming Philadelphia into a center of industry and culture. They led a host of civic institutions including the Franklin Institute, Abolition Society, and University of Pennsylvania. At the same time, their vast network of relatives and associates became a leading force in the rise of American industry in Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, and elsewhere.Engineering Philadelphia is a sweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis. Domenic Vitiello tells the story of the influential Sellers family, placing their experiences in the broader context of industrialization and urbanization in the United States from the colonial era through World War II. The story of the Sellers family illustrates how family and business networks shaped the social, financial, and technological processes of industrial capitalism. As Vitiello documents, the Sellers family and their network profoundly influenced corporate and federal technology policy, manufacturing practice, infrastructure and building construction, and metropolitan development. Vitiello also links the family's declining fortunes to the deindustrialization of Philadelphia-and the nation-over the course of the twentieth century. 606 $aDeindustrialization$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIndustrialization$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aManufactures$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aUrbanization$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aDeindustrialization$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrialization$xHistory 615 0$aManufactures$xHistory 615 0$aUrbanization$xHistory 676 $a974.8/11 700 $aVitiello$b Domenic$01125290 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807751703321 996 $aEngineering Philadelphia$94020045 997 $aUNINA