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This book describes technological change in an industry that played
a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars
have examined isolated aspects of ironmaking in the eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Hyde surveys all aspects of its
development. Costs, prices, profits, shrewd leaders, competition,
new inventions, and productivity all figure in this story of a key
industry during the major period of its evolution. The author's
account illuminates not only the nature of innovation in one
industry, but the nature of technologial change in general. using
new data compiled form the records of the ironmaking concerns,
Professor Hyde considers each of the basic economic variables
affecting entrepreneurial decisions. He finds that ironmaking
advanced through a process of gradual, continuous change rather
than through a series of discrete innovations. The rate of
diffusion of new techniques corresponded to their profitability
when compared to that of existing means of production--a finding
that explains that timing of innovation. Charles K. Hyde is
Assistant Professor of Social Science at Monteith College, Wayne
State University. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
This book describes technological change in an industry that played
a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars
have examined isolated aspects of ironmaking in the eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Hyde surveys all aspects of its
development. Costs, prices, profits, shrewd leaders, competition,
new inventions, and productivity all figure in this story of a key
industry during the major period of its evolution. The author's
account illuminates not only the nature of innovation in one
industry, but the nature of technologial change in general. using
new data compiled form the records of the ironmaking concerns,
Professor Hyde considers each of the basic economic variables
affecting entrepreneurial decisions. He finds that ironmaking
advanced through a process of gradual, continuous change rather
than through a series of discrete innovations. The rate of
diffusion of new techniques corresponded to their profitability
when compared to that of existing means of production--a finding
that explains that timing of innovation. Charles K. Hyde is
Assistant Professor of Social Science at Monteith College, Wayne
State University. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers
accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total
war production, and this amazing output from ""the arsenal of
democracy"" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact,
automobile makers achieved such production miracles that many of
their methods were adopted by other defence industries,
particularly the aircraft industry. In Arsenal of Democracy: The
American Automobile Industry in World War II, award-winning
historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a
wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements
along the way. Hyde examines several innovative cooperative
relationships that developed between the executive branch of the
federal government, U.S. military services, automobile industry
leaders, auto industry suppliers, and the United Automobile Workers
(UAW) union, which set up the industry to achieve production
miracles. He goes on to examine the struggles and achievements of
individual automakers during the war years in producing items like
aircraft engines, aircraft components, and complete aircraft; tanks
and other armoured vehicles; jeeps, trucks, and amphibians; guns,
shells, and bullets of all types; and a wide range of other weapons
and war goods ranging from search lights to submarine nets and
gyroscopes. Hyde also considers the important role played by
previously underused workers-namely African Americans and women-in
the war effort and their experiences on the line. Arsenal of
Democracy includes an analysis of wartime production nationally, on
the automotive industry level, by individual automakers, and at the
single plant level. For this thorough history, Hyde has consulted
previously overlooked records collected by the Automobile
Manufacturers Association that are now housed in the National
Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library.
Automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history
buffs will welcome the compelling look at wartime industry in
Arsenal of Democracy.
The first comprehensive history of the Chrysler Corporation, this
book is intended for readers interested in the history of
automobiles and of American business, and for fans and critics of
Chrysler's products. From the Chrysler Six of 1924, to the
front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s, to the minivan,
Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological "firsts." But
even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers,
it has come to the brink of financial ruin more than once in its
seventy-five-year history. How Chrysler achieved monumental success
and then managed colossal failure and sharp recovery is explained
in Riding the Roller Coaster, a lively, unprecedented look at a
major force in the American automobile industry since 1925. Charles
Hyde tells the intriguing story behind Chrysler--its products,
people, and performance over time--with particular focus on the
company's management. He offers a lens through which the reader can
view the U.S. auto industry from the perspective of the smallest of
the automakers who, along with Ford and General Motors, make up the
"Big Three." The book covers Walter P. Chrysler's life and
automotive career before 1925, when he founded the Chrysler
Corporation, and traces the company's history to 1998, when it
merged with Daimler-Benz. Chrysler made a late entrance into the
industry in 1925 when it emerged from Chalmers and Maxwell, and
further grew when it absorbed Dodge Brothers and American Motors
Corporation. The author follows this journey, explaining the
company's leadership in automotive engineering, its styling
successes and failures, its changing management, and its activities
from auto racing to defense production toreal estate. Throughout,
the colorful personalities of its leaders--including Chrysler
himself and Lee lacocca--emerge as strong forces in the company's
development, imparting a risk-taking mentality that gave the
company its verve.
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Roy D. Chapin (Paperback)
Charles K Hyde; J C Long; Foreword by William Ruxton Chapin
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John Cuthbert Long's Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed
biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile
industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin
(February 23, 1880-February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant
American auto industry pioneers, along with the Duryea brothers,
Ransom E. Olds, Henry Leland, Henry Ford, William C. Durant, and
the Dodge brothers. Outside the cloister of automotive historians,
Roy Chapin is an unknown. This is in part because no company or car
bore his name. Unlike many contemporary auto pioneers, Roy Chapin
was a modest man who did not promote himself. Even Long's superb
biography of Chapin is not well-known because it was privately
printed in 1945 with a small press run. In reprinting this volume,
Wayne State University Press is making an important contribution to
automotive history.
While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The
American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State
University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles
K. Hyde discovered the many remarkable photos that were part of the
era's historical documentation. In Images from the Arsenal of
Democracy, Hyde presents a selection of nearly three hundred of
these documentary photos in striking black and white, with brief
captions. Taken together, the images create a captivating portrait
of this crucial moment in American business, military and cultural
history. Images from the Arsenal of Democracy spans from 1940 until
the end of the war, presenting up-close, rarely seen views of newly
built plants and repurposed production lines, a staggering variety
of war products and components and the many workers behind
Detroit's wartime production miracles. The human faces that Hyde
presents are especially compelling, as photos show the critical
role played by previously underused workers - namely women and
African Americans. Images from the Arsenal is divided into chapters
by theme, including "Preparing for War before Pearl Harbor";
"Planning Defense Production after Pearl Harbor"; "Aircraft Engines
and Propellers"; "Aircraft Components and Complete Aircraft";
"Tanks and Other Armored Vehicles"; "Jeeps, Trucks, and Amphibious
Vehicles"; "Guns, Shells, Bullets, and Other War Goods"; "The New
Workers"; and "Celebrating the Production Achievements". The first
comprehensive and detailed history drawn solely from the surviving
photographic record of wartime Detroit, Images from the Arsenal
will be appreciated by automotive historians, World War II scholars
and American history buffs.
Symbols of safety, reassurance, and guidance, lighthouses hold a
special fascination for many people. On the Great Lakes,
lighthouses - "northern lights" - helped to open the region to
settlement and supported the growth of commercial trade. To this
day, they continue to light the way for thousands of recreational
boaters. In this definitive guide to the lighthouses of the Great
Lakes, Charles Hyde describes the histories of more than one
hundred and sixty individual lighthouses that still exist on Lakes
Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, and the straits of Mackinac.
He also describes the lives of early lighthouse keepers and their
families, the heroes and heroines who lived in isolation, dedicated
to aiding travelers in distress. Hyde documents maritime history
from the early eighteenth century, when the first lighthouses were
built in North America, and the subsequent growth of commerce on
the Great Lakes. He also provides a general history of the United
States Lighthouse Service and its descendants and examines how
these organizations have functioned on the Great Lakes. As the
shipping industry flourished, so too did the necessity for
lighthouses. With their proliferation came a demand for more
sophisticated structures. This book describes the changing design
of lighthouses and the equipment that produces their beacons.
This title showcases the founding, development, and growth of Wayne
State University, Michigan's third largest public university, in
historical photographs. ""Wayne State University"" traces its
earliest roots to the Civil War era and Detroit's Harper Hospital,
where its Medical College was founded in 1868. In 1917 a junior
college was formed in the building now called Old Main, and along
with four other schools - education, engineering, pharmacy, and a
graduate school - these units would come to be called Wayne State
University. In ""A History of Wayne State in Photographs"", Evelyn
Aschenbrenner traces the evolution of the university from those
early schools into a modern research university with an extensive
urban campus. Aschenbrenner surveys over 140 years' worth of
historical photos and archival material to give readers a complete
visual guide to Wayne State's development. She charts official
milestones of the university, including the organization of
colleges into a university in the 1930s, the drive for state
support in the 1950s, and the new buildings that were built as
academic programs expanded. Aschenbrenner also surveys campus life,
including disciplinary and curricular development, student life,
and the university's relations with its surrounding neighborhood,
which were strained by various urban renewal programs. A thoughtful
introduction by Charles K. Hyde, a foreword by Bill McGraw, a time
line of university events, and a list of university presidents
complete this informative and attractive volume. ""A History of
Wayne State University in Photographs"" compiles rare and
intriguing images that will be of interest to anyone with ties to
Wayne State University. It will make a perfect keepsake for current
and former students, faculty and staff, and anyone interested in
local history.
At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers
supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto
giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive
supplier company, much to Ford's advantage, John and Horace Dodge
again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by
introducing their own car. The Dodge Brothers automobile carried on
their names even after their untimely deaths in 1920, with the
company then remaining in the hands of their widows until its sale
in 1925 to New York bankers and subsequent purchase in 1928 by
Walter Chrysler. The Dodge nameplate has endured, but despite their
achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry
Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of
the early automotive industry. Charles K. Hyde's book The Dodge
Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy is the first
scholarly study of the Dodge brothers and their company,
chronicling their lives - from their childhood in Niles, Michigan,
to their long years of learning the machinist's trade in Battle
Creek, Port Huron, Detroit, and Windsor, Ontario - and examining
their influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in
the early part of the twentieth century. Hyde details the brothers'
civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of minorities and
women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local
organizations. Hyde puts the Dodge brothers' lives and
accomplishments in perspective by indicating their long-term
influence, which has continued long after their deaths. The most
complete and accurate resource on John and Horace Dodge available,
The Dodge Brothers uses sources that have never before been
examined. Its scholarly approach and personal tone make this book
appealing for automotive historians as well as car enthusiasts and
those interested in Detroit's early development.
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