Dueber-Hampden Watch Company At the turn of the century, the population of Canton, Ohio more than doubled because of one company. Now you’re probably thinking that this was the Timken Company? But, that is not the correct answer. So it must be the Hoover Vacuum Company, or one of the many steel industries. Wrong, on both counts. Well, who was it that doubled Canton’s population? Why it was Dueber-Hampden Watch Works Company, of course! Wait, you mean that you don’t know what Dueber-Hampden Watch Works Company was? Well then, let me tell you a story. It all started in 1852 when a nine-year old boy by the name of John Carl Dueber, came to the new land of America with his mother and father, (Slide 1) ready for a new life away from his small home village of Netphen, Germany. When John was of age in his early teens, he took up an apprenticeship in Cincinnati, Ohio and began the art of engraving watch cases. Little did he know that it would not be long before the entire country and the …show more content…
Dougherty, a retired Canton banker, was determined to see Canton get the newly combined company. John Dueber was asking for a $100,000 gift from any city that wanted the new company’s and plus 7,000-10,000 employees and families. So Dougherty went to work and gathered 20 prominent figures, making them each promise to contribute $5,000. Three months later, a meeting was called and the money was given to Dueber, along with 25 acres of land, donated by the Meyers family of Meyers Lake if you know where that is. The land gift included benefits on land and taxes. Within 4 short years,, The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was responsible for the population of Canton increasing more than 200% bringing over 12,000 new people to the once small city of Canton. John Dueber created the largest housing shortage in Canton’s
Working together, Carnegie and Vanderbilt had created an industrial machine so powerful, that nothing stood in its path. This is much similar to how Microsoft has monopolized the computer software industry by eliminating competition and using questionable means of obtaining their place on the hierarchy of corporations in the bus...
During the reconstruction of America after the Civil War, the government allocated land grants and premiums to encourage work on the railroads, which proved effective. However, such incentives led to a questionable quality of work. Land donations and loans offered to both companies would eventually become profitable with the addition of railroad tracks running through, and the la...
Though he rarely visited Oregon, Henry Kaiser was an influential industrialist whose successful ventures in manufacturing and health care significantly impacted the state. In the year of 1914, he founded the Henry J. Kaiser Company, which specialized in road paving. He expanded his industrial empire over the years and, by the time of President Roosevelt's administration during the period of the 1930s, it was one of those well-known companies that attracted lucrative federal contracts. In the year of 1913, Kaiser was working for a gravel and cement dealer in Washington when one of his clients, a Canadian road-building company, went out of business. He got a loan to take over the company’s project and finished it with a profit. During the period
Businesses and large corporations were essential to the economy of the United States but concealed their genuine intentions. Factory owners provided jobs and income to the household of not only the American people, but also immigrants. In addition, the government believed that corporate owners are crucial since they’re the backbone of productivity which stimulates the economy. On the contrary, David Von Drehle spilled the dirty work of industrial owners. Competition among businesses is known to be a healthy act but it was a hindrance for owners to become even richer. They generated the practice of monopoly, which occurs when a corporation owns all the market of given merchandise, by lowering the prices of commodities until their competitors close down. It was very common in the urban areas of New York state considering that “there were more than five hundred blouse factories [since] the waist industry was booming” (8). After a successful scheme of shutting down other businesses, monopoly owners began to increase prices and in...
Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800 to Amasa and Cynthia Goodyear. Charles’s father was a hardware manufacture and a merchant. Amasa Goodyear built mainly farming tools like hayforks and scythes, which he invented. When Charles was a teenager he wanted to go into the ministry and become a pastor, but his father convinced him that he was a good business man and placed him in the hardware store of the Rogers brothers in Philadelphia at the age of seventeen. He worked there until he was twenty-one years old. At that time he returned to New Haven to join his father’s business, making farm tools. For five years he worked for his father, building up the family business. On August 24, 1824, while he was still working for his father he married Clarissa Beecher who also lived in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1826 Charles Goodyear decided to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he opened a hardware store where he sold the products that his father made. Four years after opening this store both Amasa and Charles Goodyear were bankrupt because they would extend credit to customers and the customers would never pay back the money that they owed. Charles’s health started to decline and both father and son owed tens of thousands of dollars. For the next thirty years Charles Goodyear was thrown in prison over ten times because he didn’t pay his debts. In 1834 when he was in New York, on a business trip, the Roxbury India Rubber Company caught his eye. ...
Known as the “King of Steel”, Andrew Carnegie was the benevolent employer and is considered one the most influential people of the second industrial revolution. There has been great debate about his true character. Some consider him a tyrant; one who was only concerned about his advancement of ideas. On the other hand, another group sees him as a generous educator. There is evidence that points to both sides; however, the best way to see him is as a combination of both. Nevertheless, there is no debate on his impact in the industry.
In order for this progress to occur in post-Civil War America, the people had to see how the current conditions of the country, poverty, segregation and racism, and poor working atmosphere were hindering the potential progress of the free workforce. Furthermore, the Depression of 1873 hit the U.S. economy very hard, and Powderly was one of the countless workers l...
In a time where jobs were scarce and the economy was suffering, the second industrial revolution brought about new changes to the work force and the economy. Du...
McCullough explains how Johnstown became an example of ‘The Gilded Age’ industrialization prior to the 1889 disaster. The canal made Johnstown the busiest place in Cambria County in the 1820s. By the 1850s the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cambria Iron Company began, and the population increased. There were about 30,000 people in the area before the flood. The Western Reservoir was built in the 1840s, but became generally known as the South Fork dam. It was designed to supply extra water for the Main Line canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh. By saving the spring floods, water could be released during the dry summers. When the dam was completed in 1852, the Pennsylvania Railroad completed the track from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and the canal business began its decline. The state offered to sell the canal, the railroad company bought it for the right of ways yet had no need to maintain the dam, which due to neglect, broke for the first time in 1862. McCullough stresses that man was responsible for the...
When the 1980’s rolled around, it was a thriving company, in the Seattle area. However, the co-founders began to have other interests and were involved in other careers simultaneously. Despite that, the company was about to undergo a major turnaround. A man by the name of Howard Schultz started to pursue an interest in the company. He noticed that the coffee shop had a wonderful environment.
Industrial Revolution, which took place over much of the nineteenth century, had many advantages. It provided people with tools for a better life; people were no longer dependent on the land for all of their goods. The Industrial Revolution made it possible for people to control nature more than they ever had before. However, now people were dependent on the new machines of the Industrial Age (1). The Revolution brought with it radical changes in the textile and engine worlds; it was a time of reason and innovations. Although it was a time of progress, there were drawbacks to the headway made in the Industrial Revolution. Granted, it provided solutions to the problems of a world without industry. However, it also created problems with its mechanized inventions that provided new ways of killing. Ironically, there was much public faith in these innovations; however, these were the same inventions that killed so many and contributed to a massive loss of faith. These new inventions made their debut in the first world war (2) ).
Undoubtedly work and place influence its surroundings. Youngstown, Ohio is emphasized as one in particular. As a result “steelmaking fueled the area’s economy and defined its identity” (68). The city was represented in newspapers, art work, postcards, and many texts as both “impressive and attractive” (75), as well as “imposing, confusing, and uninviting” (86). Considering the conflicting representations, steelmaking “also suggest(s) a key element of conflict in the community” that it was so clearly creating an identity for (69).
During the 1800’s Great Britain’s empire stretched around the world, and with raw materials easily available to them this way, they inevitably began refining and manufacturing all stages of many new machines and other goods, distributing locally and globally. However, despite being the central ‘workshop of the world,’ Britain was not producing the highest quality of merchandise. When comparing factory-made products made in England to surrounding countries, most notably France, those products could not compare as far as craftsmanship and sometimes, simply innovation. It was suggested by Prince Albert that England host a sort of free-for-all technological exposition to bring in outside crafts into the country and also show their national pride.
The Swiss watch industry is again in the midst of a technology revolution, which threatens to be comparable to the “quartz crisis” (Refer Appendix A). Led by organizations such as FitBit, Samsung and now more recently Apple, the wearable technology and smartwatch industry is expected to reach market revenue of US$32.9 Billion by 2020.
ADVANCED MATERIALS (MAE 539)HOMEWORK 2METAL FOAMS IN WATCHMAKINGAUTHORS:NARENDER SHANKAR LAKSHMANABIµN BAUTISTA RODRIGUEZWATCHMAKINGINTRODUCTIONTimekeeping has been an important science since time immemorial! In 1450 BC, The Egyptians designed and relied on a sundial, which used the natural rhythm of day and night. As the years and centuries went by, humans began developing more precise instruments to keep time. Watchmaking is the art of making watches. Today, watchmaking industry employs thousands of specially trained craftsmen, engineers and scientists to design, develop and produce a range of watches for various purposes. Ranging from making accurate time measurements in high-speed environments, using timepieces in space as a reliable source of reference time, to having a