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August, 2000
Editorial
Drawing from the past, leading into the future
Manufacturing evolved constantly during the 20th century, through two World Wars, the Depression, several recessions, and all types of other conflicts. At the beginning of the century, factories...
Features
1900s
The dawn of the 20th century was a busy time for manufacturing. The U.S. was in the midst of the industrial revolution, and in the machine tool industry, an important transformation was taking place....
1910s
In the second decade of the 20th century manufacturing companies began to move and expand production facilities. Most were meeting the demands of either World War I or the growing auto industry,...
1920s
The American economy boomed throughout most of the 1920s. For the first time, American families — no matter what their social status — were buying electric washing machines, refrigerators,...
1930s
The Great Depression affected nearly every American family in some way. In 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President, one in every four workers was unemployed, and more than 50,000...
