Old And Sold Antiques AucitonThousands of articles from the past.Marketing- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The first step towards a real market was the fair. A real market is a rather permanent relation between buyers and sellers, whereas the fair was at first an occasional or intermittent relation of the same sort.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-30.shtml The Financing Of Industry And Development Of Corporations- (Found June 29, 2008 ) In every new country capital is scarce. It takes a good while to develop a surplus of capital sufficient for embarkation upon industries much in advance of agriculture.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-31.shtml Beginnings Of The American Transportation System- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The earliest settlements had been made, of course, on the seaboard, and they were necessarily more or less isolated from one another because of the practical absence of means of communication, especially by land.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-24.shtml Electrical Machinery And Apparatus- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Establishments engaged in manufacturing electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies are to be found in nearly all of our states, but the industry is highly developed and centralized in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Ohio.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-23.shtml Chemicals And Dyestuffs- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The actual manufacture of dyestuffs started in this country early in the last century. There are records of dyes being made at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1816, and in Philadelphia in 1834.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-22.shtml Other Minerals- (Found June 29, 2008 ) There are several other minerals which are of considerable significance in the economic life of the country but which have not been deemed worthy of separate treatment.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-15.shtml Advantages Of The U.S. For Manufacturing- (Found June 29, 2008 ) Scarcely any product of agricultural, animal, or mineral industry is ready for the use of man until it has been reshaped or transformed in some way.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-16.shtml Food And Kindred Products- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The food group of industries embraces the manufacture of all kinds of food products except liquors and beverages. Of the fourteen leading groups of American industries distinguished by the Census Bureau this is the most important.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-17.shtml Metallic Products- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The transformation of metals into metallic products is one of the greatest of human achievements. In the most primitive times it was regarded as at least a semi-magical process, and the smith was both respected and feared, as being a magician.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-18.shtml Textiles- (Found June 29, 2008 ) The textile industries include the manufacture of various fabrics, the conversion of these fabrics into articles for personal wear, and the making of textile products other than those for personal wear.http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/industry-trade-19.shtml |