Subcategories - Industry, Manufacturing, Factories

  1. Abraham Darby
  2. Akio Morita
  3. Alfred Krupp
  4. American and Mexican Companies Form Maquiladoras
  5. American Firms Adopt Japanese Manufacturing Techniques
  6. André-Gustave Citroën
  7. Andrew Carnegie
  8. Andrew Mellon
  9. Anthracite Coal Strike
  10. The Asian Development Bank Is Chartered
  11. Automakers Introduce the Catalytic Converter
  12. Autoworkers Negotiate a Contract with a Cost-of-Living Provision
  13. Behrens Designs the AEG Turbine Factory
  14. Bell Labs Is Formed
  15. Bhopal Disaster Kills and Injures Thousands
  16. Black Patch War
  17. A British Labour Party Victory Leads to Takeovers of Industry
  18. British Leyland Motor Corporation Forms by Merger
  19. British Workers Fail to Achieve Objectives in a General Strike
  20. The Bundestag Passes Legislation on Codetermination
  21. Burton’s Thermal Cracking Process Improves Gasoline Production
  22. CAD/CAM Revolutionizes Engineering and Manufacturing
  23. Cadillac Demonstrates Interchangeable Parts
  24. Callendar Connects Industry with Carbon Dioxide Increases
  25. The Celler-Kefauver Act Amends Antitrust Legislation
  26. Cement Manufacturers Agree to Cooperate on Pricing
  27. Charles Goodyear
  28. The CIO Begins Unionizing Unskilled Workers
  29. Congress Begins Hearings on Cost Overruns for the C-5A Galaxy
  30. Congress Passes the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
  31. The Cuyahoga River Bursts into Flames
  32. Defense Cutbacks Devastate the U.S. Aerospace Industry
  33. Denis Papin
  34. Design for the Real World Reorients Industrial Design
  35. Dioxin Causes Chloracne in West German Chemical Workers
  36. Discovery of Oil at Spindletop Transforms the Oil Industry
  37. Eiji Toyoda
  38. Eli Whitney
  39. Enzo Ferrari
  40. Erich Mendelsohn
  41. A European Consortium Plans the Airbus
  42. Fiat Plans to Build a Factory in the Soviet Union
  43. Firms Begin Replacing Skilled Laborers with Automatic Tools
  44. First Diesel Locomotive Is Tested
  45. Ford Assembly Line Begins Operation
  46. Ford Implements Assembly Line Production
  47. Ford Introduces the Mustang
  48. Ford Offers a Five-Dollar, Eight-Hour Workday
  49. France Launches Its First Four-Year Plan
  50. France Nationalizes Its Banking and Industrial Sectors