Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis /
Domenic Vitiello.
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.