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Manufacturing the future : a history of Western Electric
- Title
- Manufacturing the future : a history of Western Electric / Stephen B. Adams, Orville R. Butler.
- Author
- Adams, Stephen B., 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Butler, Orville R., 1952-
- Description
- xi, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Manufacturing the Future is the first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, which was founded in 1869 and served for more than 100 years as the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System. Western Electric was a leading manufacturer in the communications revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, making not just telegraphs, telephones, and switches, but radios, sound systems for motion pictures, and radar - even an early computing machine.
- As captive supplier for a regulated monopoly, Western Electric's situation was far from typical, but its story offers broader lessons - such as the difference between innovation and implementation.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-259) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Before the Bell: 1869-1882 -- Ch. 2. In Bell's World, but Not of It: 1882-1900 -- Ch. 3. Systems of Managing and Managing of Systems: 1900-1925 -- Ch. 4. Heard Round the World: 1925-1950 -- Ch. 5. Defense and Social Contracts: 1950-1972 -- Ch. 6. A Shock to the System: 1972-1984 -- Ch. 7. After the Western: 1984-1995 -- App. A. Chief Executives -- App. B. Company Sales and Employees.
- ISBN
- 0521651182
- LCCN
- 98034294
- OCLC
- 504243489
- ocn504243489
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries