Articles Tagged with ''manufacturing history''

Manufacturing History Comes Alive in Pullman

Pullman perfected rail car production processes and pioneered the use of new materials.

November 2, 2021

America's newest national park recently opened on the South Side of Chicago. The Pullman National Monument celebrates the unique history of a company that mass-produced freight and passenger rail cars at the site from 1881 to 1981.

Chicago Once Ruled the Bike World

Austin Weber

July 15, 2021

The West Side of Chicago was once the epicenter of the bicycle manufacturing industry.

The 1936 GM Sit-Down Strike Changed Labor History

Tim Trainor

October 7, 2020

On July 1, 1930, 200 metal trimmers and polishers at GM’s Fisher Body No.1 (Fisher One) in Flint, MI, laid down their tools and stormed off the job, hollering for others to follow.

Austin Weber

February 7, 2020

Museum exhibits highlight some of the many products that were once made in Chicago and Milwaukee factories

8,000th Apprentice Starts Career with Bühler

December 3, 2019

UZWIL, Switzerland—Bühler Group has officially trained 8,000 apprentices globally over a 100-year history of vocational training.

Austin Weber

July 19, 2019

Fifty years ago, assembly lines stretching from Long Island to Los Angeles produced millions of complex parts that made the first moon landing possible.

America’s Most Destructive Industrial Fire

When an inferno destroyed General Motors’ transmission factory in Livonia, MI, it plunged the automaker into a monumental crisis.

Tim Trainor

May 8, 2019

When General Motors opened the Detroit Transmission plant in Livonia, MI, in 1949, the 1.5-million-square-foot facility sym-bolized the resounding success of the most popular component in American automobiles—the Hydra-Matic Drive transmis-sion.

New Book Examines Chicago’s Manufacturing Heritage

April 10, 2019

CHICAGO—A new book entitled Made in Chicago examines the important role that manufacturing played in the history and growth of the Windy City.

Ford's Rouge Assembly Plant Turns 100

Vertical integration once thrived at Ford’s legendary manufacturing complex.

Austin Weber

March 14, 2019

It has witnessed the production of some of the most iconic vehicles in history. It's also a veteran of two world wars and the Great Depression. And, it played a pivotal role in American labor history. Ford Motor Co.'s iconic manufacturing complex on the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, MI, has seen it all.

How Ford's Willow Run Assembly Plant Helped Win World War II

The Willow Run bomber plant made aviation, industrial and social history—along with new B-24s by the hour.

Tim Trainor

January 3, 2019

President Roosevelt stunned millions of listeners when he announced during a May 26, 1940, fireside chat that government must "harness the efficient machinery of America's manufacturers" to produce 50,000 combat aircraft over the next 12 months to confront the "approaching storm" of global war.

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Articles Tagged with ''manufacturing history''

Manufacturing History Comes Alive in Pullman

Chicago Once Ruled the Bike World

The 1936 GM Sit-Down Strike Changed Labor History

Engineers Take the Spotlight in Chicago and Milwaukee

8,000th Apprentice Starts Career with Bühler

One 'Giant Leap' for Manufacturing

America’s Most Destructive Industrial Fire

New Book Examines Chicago’s Manufacturing Heritage

Ford's Rouge Assembly Plant Turns 100

How Ford's Willow Run Assembly Plant Helped Win World War II

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