Description:An impressive history of one of Wisconsin's best known companies. This book features historical information, photographs, and first person accounts of the company known as Allis Chalmers. In the spring of 1846, an ambitious young New Yorker names Edward P. Allis arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to begin a long and distinguished business career. By the 1880's, he had built the Edward P. Allis Company into a leading manufacturer of steam engines, sawmills, and milling machines, the forerunner of today's Allis-Chalmers Corporation. This volume traces the development of Allis-Chalmers from the first products of the "Reliance Works" to the diversified international corporation of the 1970's. The personalities who led the business through industrial, economic, and political cycles -- Edward Allis, Edwin Reynolds, Otto Falk, David Scott, and others -- are included, as are the major technological advances and inventions which have kept the company in the forefront of world industrial development over the years. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Industrial Heritage: Allis -Chalmers Corporation. To get started finding An Industrial Heritage: Allis -Chalmers Corporation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
448
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Milwaukee County Historical Society
Release
1978
ISBN
0938076027
An Industrial Heritage: Allis -Chalmers Corporation
Description: An impressive history of one of Wisconsin's best known companies. This book features historical information, photographs, and first person accounts of the company known as Allis Chalmers. In the spring of 1846, an ambitious young New Yorker names Edward P. Allis arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to begin a long and distinguished business career. By the 1880's, he had built the Edward P. Allis Company into a leading manufacturer of steam engines, sawmills, and milling machines, the forerunner of today's Allis-Chalmers Corporation. This volume traces the development of Allis-Chalmers from the first products of the "Reliance Works" to the diversified international corporation of the 1970's. The personalities who led the business through industrial, economic, and political cycles -- Edward Allis, Edwin Reynolds, Otto Falk, David Scott, and others -- are included, as are the major technological advances and inventions which have kept the company in the forefront of world industrial development over the years. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Industrial Heritage: Allis -Chalmers Corporation. To get started finding An Industrial Heritage: Allis -Chalmers Corporation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.