Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry
From the aeronauts of the early republic to the jets, missiles, and rockets of the Cold War era, the growth and development of the aeronautical and aerospace industry in the Philadelphia region has...
View ArticleBank War
This 1836 cartoon satirizes Andrew Jackson’s campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States and its support among state banks. (Library of Congress) Conflict over renewing the charter of the Second...
View ArticleBank of the United States (First)
Chartered in 1791 as part of the financial and economic reform plans of Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), the first secretary of the Treasury, the first Bank of the United States played an instrumental...
View ArticleBank of North America
Robert Morris was the founder of the Bank of North America. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) Chartered May 26, 1781, by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, the Bank of...
View ArticleBakeries and Bakers
Baking, one of the earliest businesses in Philadelphia, did not become a major part of the local economy until the late nineteenth century. It remained a viable industry throughout the region’s...
View ArticleAutomotive Manufacturing
Once a mainstay of Greater Philadelphia’s industrial might and a reflection of the socioeconomic transformations of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the manufacturing of automobiles and...
View ArticleAutomobiles
Since appearing in the 1890s, automobiles have in many ways shaped Greater Philadelphia’s history and geography. Initially a luxury item and later available on a massive scale, cars, while enhancing...
View ArticleArtisans
As skilled laborers who hand-crafted their goods on a per-customer basis, artisans played a central role in the formation of Philadelphia’s prerevolutionary economy: producing essential goods and...
View ArticleArsenals
For much of the nation’s history Philadelphia held a preeminent position as the provider of logistical support to the U.S. Army, and federal arsenals played a considerable role in the economic life of...
View ArticleAirports
On June 26, 1945, spectators, public officials, and representatives from Trans World Airlines celebrated the opening of Northeast Philadelphia Airport, where commercial operations first resumed in the...
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