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Manufacturing the Future : A History of Western Electric
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Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric is the first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As a manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made new products such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radios, radar, and transistors. The book demonstrates, through Western's 1882 acquisition by Bell Telephone, that vertical integration was a lengthy process rather than a single event. It also shows the coming of age of industrial psychology and describes the advent of civil rights in corporate America.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521651189
- ISBN-10: 0521651182
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: January 1999
- Dimensions: 9.27 x 6.32 x 0.93 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.35 pounds
- Page Count: 284
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