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New DJI Zenmuse P1 And DJI Zenmuse L1 Payloads Become The Drone Industry's Most Capable Solutions For Geospatial, Surveying And Construction Professionals
DJI, the world leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today unveiled at INTERGEO, two new payload solutions for its flagship commercial drone platform Matrice 300 RTK, destined to serve the most demanding aerial surveying missions. The DJI Zenmuse P1 and DJI Zenmuse L1 are set to be game-changers for the industry, bringing more efficiency and new perspectives at an affordable cost without compromising the quality and accuracy of the data collected for precise aerial inspections and data collection missions.
"With these two new payloads, we are providing an all-integrated complete solution to our enterprise customers active in accurate geospatial data acquisition," said Arjun Menon, Engineering Manager at DJI in the US. "Having a fully integrated capable and affordable Lidar seamlessly integrated into our best commercial drone is a dream that becomes reality for surveying, mapping and construction professionals. They will be able to see, cover and understand the geospatial context from a totally new perspective thanks to the high level of accuracy and quality of the data collected from these tools in the sky."
DJI Zenmuse L1 – DJI's First Lidar Solution For Aerial Surveying
In the aerial surveying industry, Lidar technology plays a vital role in building accurate reality models. In low light situations, or in areas with heavy foliage where traditional drone-based photogrammetry methods would fall short, Lidar can provide quick, precise true-color point cloud models of complex structures. The Zenmuse L1 is DJI's first Lidar solution for aerial surveying, and a major breakthrough in democratizing Lidar technology by being easy to use and accessible.
The Zenmuse L1 integrates a powerful yet ultra-lightweight Livox Lidar module with a 70° FOV, a high-accuracy IMU, and a 20-megapixel camera with a 1-inch CMOS sensor and a mechanical shutter on a 3-axis stabilized gimbal. The Zenmuse L1 can generate true-color point cloud models in real-time, or acquire a vast area (up to 2 km2) of point cloud data in a single flight. With a Point Rate of 240.000 points per second and a detection range of 450 meters, the ease and speed of capturing quality Lidar data is unprecedented. The module supports both Line Scan Mode and Non-repetitive Scanning Mode, a unique technology developed by Livox. This will provide full coverage of the area of interest in very short amounts of time, and allows the sensor to capture data in any direction, instead of along a defined plane.
When used with DJI's flagship commercial drone platform Matrice 300 RTK and DJI Terra surveying software, it becomes a complete and versatile solution that gives the user real-time 3D data throughout the day, efficiently capturing the details of complex structures and delivering highly accurate reconstructed models. Thanks to its IP44 rating, The Zenmuse L1 can operate in rainy or foggy environments while the Lidar module's active scanning method enables flights in low light conditions.
The Livox Lidar's unique non-repetitive scanning process allows the sensor to capture data in any direction, which is critical for mapping applications. The Zenmuse L1 Lidar solution can easily penetrate vegetation canopies and foliage. Agriculture and forestry managers will benefit from insights such as canopy width, vegetation density, area, stock volume and growth trends. Emergency responders can gather critical insights using true-color point clouds, gain situational awareness and capture forensic intelligence in real time for informed decision-making. The Zenmuse L1 can be used throughout asset-intensive, high-risk and hazardous environments, including in oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, telecommunications and power.
DJI Zenmuse P1 - Full Frame Photogrammetry - The New Benchmark For Aerial Surveying
Over the past few years, DJI Enterprise has dedicated significant efforts and commitments to professionals from the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Surveying industries. Experts have adopted drone technology and naturally turned to the DJI P4 RTK's capability to capture data for centimeter-level accurate maps and models for a range of applications, from cadastral surveys to natural heritage site models.
Today, DJI pushes the boundaries of its vision for the industry by elevating aerial photogrammetry to an unprecedented level of accuracy, performance, and high-precision work. The new DJI Zenmuse P1 is the most powerful DJI camera payload dedicated to geospatial data acquisition. It integrates a 45-megapixel full-frame low-noise high-sensitivity sensor offering flexible viewing with interchangeable 24/35/50mm fixed-focus lenses on a 3-axis stabilized gimbal.
The DJI Zenmuse P1 provides high accuracy without Ground Control Points (3cm horizontally / 5cm vertically) and high efficiency as it is able to cover 3 km2 in a single flight.
Equipped with a mechanical shutter and the all-new TimeSync 2.0 system, which synchronizes time across modules at the microsecond level, the Zenmuse P1 lets users capture centimeter-accurate data combined with real-time position and orientation compensation technology.
The Smart Oblique Capture feature dramatically improves efficiency, mimicking a multi-sensor oblique camera, and only capturing the photos essential to the reconstruction at the edge of the mapping areas.
Adopting the DJI Zenmuse P1 will offer a new edge to photogrammetry professionals, enabling them to work faster thanks to its unique features. They will be enabled to conduct complex missions requiring 2D orthomosaics, collect oblique images for 3D modeling with centimeter-level accuracy, and acquire ultra-high resolution image data of vertical or slanted surfaces from a safe distance that faithfully recreates fine textures, structures, and features for detailed reconstructions, geological surveys, heritage site conservation, hydraulic engineering and more. Teams will also be able to work on real-time mapping missions gathering geographic information using DJI Terra.
Price and Availability
The DJI Zenmuse L1 and DJI Zenmuse P1 are available for pre-order from official DJI Enterprise dealers worldwide and will start shipping in early 2021. Pricing details and information on where to buy will be available at your local DJI Enterprise Partners.
DJI Enterprise dealer map: https://www.dji.com/where-to-buy/enterprise-dealers


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Certain patent owners just can't get enough of the monopoly power patents bestow. That's why they keep trying to make it easier to get and sue over patents, despite Supreme Court rulings that point in the opposite direction.
Their latest effort, the misleadingly-named "Inventors Rights Act," also known as H.R. 5478, hijacks the positive associations many of us have with "inventors" to radically tilt the patent system in favor of patent owners, including patent trolls.
Patent trolls make money by threatening people over everyday activities, not by inventing, building, or selling anything of value. At EFF, we've been tracking and fighting them for years. Over the past two decades, the Patent Office has allowed tens of thousands of vaguely-worded software patents to proliferate. Patent trolls can use those patents for up to twenty years to sue regular people who use software for everyday activities—like making a picture menu, running an online contest, teaching a foreign language, or tracking packages.
Advocates for more patent powers insist—despite nearly two decades of litigation records, studies, and other published evidence—that patent trolls are an overblown problem. We published a deep dive on this issue earlier today, discussing what we mean at EFF when we talk about patent trolls and abuses of the patent system.
H.R. 5478 will give enormous new litigation powers to a select group of patent owners, which will include many patent trolls. The bill will re-classify them as "inventors" and then grant them new powers. In particular, the bill will throw out the checks against extreme and extortionate patent litigation that have been put in place over the years by the Supreme Court.
Throwing Out The Balance
The Inventors Rights Act would roll back three major areas of law that keep the patent system balanced. The bill pays lip service to "inventors," but the changes it proposes are seriously harmful—whether they're limited to certain types of entities or not. Practically speaking, these giveaways will go to dozens, or possibly even hundreds, of litigation-prone limited liability companies, not hardworking individuals.
First, H.R. 5478 would go back to a system of near-automatic injunctions for patent cases. That would give patent owners the power to shut down other companies' operations (or threaten to do so) regardless of the harm that might cause the public. This change would essentially undo the 2006 landmark patent case, eBay v. MercExchange. That's the case where the Supreme Court said that patent owners have to prove an injunction is necessary to avoid irreparable harm before they can get one. That rule hurts patent trolls because they don't participate in product markets, and therefore are extremely unlikely to suffer the kind of harm that money could not compensate. If Congress dismantles eBay, do-nothing companies will again be able to use software patents to extort massive settlements and distort competitive markets. The classic example: the notorious NTP v. RIM case, in which the then-ubiquitous Blackberry phone network was nearly shut down, until a $612 million settlement was paid to a patent troll called NTP.
Second, H.R. 5478 would undo critical venue reform based on a Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland. Before TC Heartland, patent trolls could sue anybody just about anywhere they wanted—and they often chose the Eastern District of Texas. After TC Heartland, patent owners can only sue defendants where they are incorporated or where they have committed supposedly infringing acts and have a regular and established place of business. This bill's proponents want to go back to the worst days of forum-shopping, where patent owners could manipulate the system by filing only in faraway venues that were friendly to them.
Third, H.R. 5478 puts a stop to a critical patent review process called inter partes review, or IPR. The IPR process was created by Congress in 2012 and has been successful in getting the patent office to overturn more than 1,500 wrongly granted patents. We know how important the IPR process is: EFF used it to challenge the so-called "podcasting" patent owned by Personal Audio LLC, which was using to harass and threaten podcasters. If H.R. 5478 had been the law at that time, EFF wouldn't have even been able to file the case. In all likelihood, Personal Audio LLC would have been exempt from the IPR process, since the original patent owner claimed to be the founder and owner of the company.
That means if Personal Audio had access to the legal loopholes granted by the "Inventors Rights Act," it could still be using its patent to threaten podcasters into paying legal settlements.
The abuses of modern patent trolling have gone on for more than 20 years now. In that time, a significant group of people have spent their careers making money off patent lawsuits and litigation threats. When they go to lobby Congress seeking extra privileges to extend their abuses of the legal system, it's convenient to wear the mantle of "inventors' rights." But make no mistake—this bill will give super-powers to some of the worst patent trolls. The lawsuits these trolls produce are already a major headache for small companies, which produce most of our nation's real inventions. U.S. small businesses shouldn't be subjected to a law like H.R. 5478, which will roll back some of the few good defenses against patent trolls.

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Juliet Chase Helmsworth Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3829
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of scrapbooks, photos, newspaper clippings, genealogical research and other items connected to the Chase Sebring families ranging from the early 1880's- the late 1960's. The collection is roughly one cubic foot in total size.
Majority of material found within 1880-1960


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The heat content of the oceans is growing and growing. That means that the greenhouse effect has not taken a pause and the cold sun is not noticeably slowing global warming.
NOAA posts regularly updated measurements of the amount of heat stored in the bulk of the oceans. For the upper 2000 m (deeper than that not much happens) it looks like this:
Change in the heat content in the upper 2000 m of the world's oceans. Source: NOAA
The amount of heat stored in the oceans is one of the most important diagnostics for global warming, because about 90% of the additional heat is stored there (you can read more about this in the last IPCC report from 2007). The atmosphere stores only about 2% because of its small heat capacity. The surface (including the continental ice masses) can only absorb heat slowly because it is a poor heat conductor. Thus, heat absorbed by the oceans accounts for almost all of the planet's radiative imbalance.
If the oceans are warming up, this implies that the Earth must absorb more solar energy than it emits longwave radiation into space. This is the only possible heat source. That's simply the first law of thermodynamics, conservation of energy. This conservation law is why physicists are so interested in looking at the energy balance of anything. Because we understand the energy balance of our Earth, we also know that global warming is caused by greenhouse gases – which have caused the largest imbalance in the radiative energy budget over the last century.
If the greenhouse effect (that checks the exit of longwave radiation from Earth into space) or the amount of absorbed sunlight diminished, one would see a slowing in the heat uptake of the oceans. The measurements show that this is not the case.
The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 1022 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.
The data in the graphs comes from the World Ocean Database. Wikipedia has a fine overview of this database. The data set includes nine million measured temperature profiles from all of the world's oceans. One of my personal heroes, the oceanographer Syd Levitus, has dedicated much of his life to making these oceanographic data freely available to everyone. During the Cold war that even landed him in a Russian jail for espionage for a while, as he was visiting Russia on his quest for oceanographic data (he once told me of that adventure over breakfast in a Beijing hotel).
How to deny data
Ideologically motivated "climate skeptics" know that these data contradict their claims, and respond … by rejecting the measurements. Millions of stations are dismissed as "negligible" – the work of generations of oceanographers vanish with a journalist's stroke of a pen because what should not exist, cannot be. "Climate skeptics'" web sites even claim that the measurement uncertainty in the average of 3000 Argo probes is the same as that from each individual one. Thus not only are the results of climate research called into question, but even the elementary rules of uncertainty calculus that every science student learns in their first semester. Anything goes when you have to deny global warming. Even more bizarre is the Star Trek argument – but let me save that for later.
Slowdown in the upper ocean
Let us look at the upper ocean (for historic reasons defined as the upper 700 m):
Change in the heat content of the upper 700 m of the oceans. Source: NOAA
And here is the direct comparison since 1980:
Changes in the heat content of the oceans. Source: Abraham et al., 2013. The 2-sigma uncertainty for 1980 is 2 x 1022 J and for recent years 0.5 x 1022 J
We see two very interesting things.
First: Roughly two thirds of the warming since 1980 occurred in the upper ocean. The heat content of the upper layer has gone up twice as much as in the lower layer (700 – 2000 m). The average temperature of the upper layer has increased more than three times as much as the lower (because the upper layer is only 700 m thick, and the lower one 1300 m). That is not surprising, as after all the ocean is heated from above and it takes time for the heat to penetrate deeper.
Second: In the last ten years the upper layer has warmed more slowly than before. In spite of this the temperature still is changing as rapidly there as in the lower layer. This recent slower warming in the upper ocean is closely related to the slower warming of the global surface temperature, because the temperature of the overlaying atmosphere is strongly coupled to the temperature of the ocean surface.
That the heat absorption of the ocean as a whole (at least to 2000 m) has not significantly slowed makes it clear that the reduced warming of the upper layer is not (at least not much) due to decreasing heating from above, but rather mostly due to greater heat loss to lower down: through the 700 m level, from the upper to the lower layer. (The transition from solar maximum to solar minimum probably also contributed a small part as planetary heat absorption decreased by about 15%, Abraham, et al., 2013). It is difficult to establish the exact mechanism for this stronger heat flux to deeper water, given the diverse internal variability in the oceans.
Association with El Niño
Completely independently of this oceanographic data, a simple correlation analysis (Foster and Rahmstorf ERL 2011) showed that the flatter warming trend of the last 10 years was mostly a result of natural variability, namely the recently more frequent appearance of cold La Niña events in the tropical Pacific and a small contribution from decreasing solar activity. The effect of La Niña can be seen directly in the following figure, without any statistical analysis. It shows the annual values of the global temperature with El Niño periods highlighted in red and La Niña periods in blue. (Weekly updates on the current El Niño situation can be found here.)
Global surface temperature (average of the three series from NOAA, NASA and HadCRU). Years influenced by El Niño are shown in red, La Niña influenced years in blue. Source: Climate Central, updated figure from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) p. 15.
One finds that both the red El Niño years and the blue La Niña years are getting warmer, but given that we have lately experienced a cluster of La Niña years the overall warming trend over the last ten years is slower. This can be thought of as the "noise" associated with natural variability, not a change in the "signal" of global warming (as discussed many times before here at RealClimate).
This is consistent with the finding that reduced warming is not mainly a result of a change in radiation balance but due to oceanic heat storage. During La Niña events (with cold ocean surface) the ocean absorbs additional heat that it releases during El Niño events (when the ocean surface is warm). The next El Niño event (whenever it comes – that is a stochastic process) is likely to produce a new global mean temperature record (as happened in 2010).
Kevin Trenberth, who has recently published a paper on this topic, explains the increased heat uptake in the deep ocean:
The reason for the change is a specific change in the winds, especially in the subtropical Pacific, where the trade winds have become noticeably stronger. That altered ocean currents, strengthening the subtropical sea water circulation thus providing a mechanism to transport heat into the deeper ocean. This is related to the decadal weather pattern in the Pacific associated with the La Niña phase of the El Niño phenomenon.
New results from climate modelling
A study by Kosaka and Xie recently published in Nature confirms that the slowing rise in global temperatures during recent years has been a result of prevalent La Niña periods in the tropical Pacific. The authors write in the abstract:
Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability tied specifically to a La Niña like decadal cooling.
They show this with an elegant experiment, in which they "force" their global climate model to follow the observed history of sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific. With this trick the model is made to replay the actual sequence of El Niño and La Niña events found in the real world, rather than producing its own events by chance. The result is that the model then also reproduces the observed global average temperature history with great accuracy.
There are then at least three independent lines of evidence that confirm we are not dealing with a slowdown in the global warming trend, but rather with progressive global warming with superimposed natural variability:
1. Our correlation analysis between global temperature and the El Niño Index.
2. The measurements of oceanic heat uptake.
3. The new model calculation of Kosaka and Xie.
Beam me up Scotty!
Now to the most amusing attempt of "climate skeptics" to wish these scientific results away. Their argument goes like this: It is not possible that warming of the deep ocean accelerates at the same time as warming of the upper ocean slows down, because the heat must pass through the upper layer to reach the depths. A German journalist put it this way:
Winds can do a lot, but can they beam warm surface waters heated by carbon dioxide 700 meters further down?
This argument reveals once again the shocking lack of understanding of basic physics in "climate skeptic" circles. First the alleged problem is lacking any factual basis – after all, in the last decades the upper layer of the oceans has warmed faster than the deeper (even if recently not quite as fast as before). What is the problem with the heat first warming the upper layer before it penetrates deeper? That is entirely as expected.
Second, physically there is absolutely no problem for wind changes to cool the upper ocean at the same time as they warm the deeper layers. The following figure shows a simple example of how this can happen (there are also other possible mechanisms).
The ocean is known to be thermally stratified, with a warm layer, some hundreds of meters thick, lying on top of a cold deep ocean (a). In the real world the transition is more gradual, not a sharp boundary as in the simplified diagram. Panel (b) shows what happens if the wind is turned on. The surface layer (above the dashed depth level) becomes on average colder (less red), the deep layer warmer. The average temperature changes are not the same (because of the different thickness of the layers), but the changes in heat content are – what the upper layer loses in heat, the lower gains. The First Law of Thermodynamics sends greetings.
Incidentally, that is the well-known mechanism of El Niño: (a) corresponds roughly to El Niño (with a warm eastern tropical Pacific) while (b) is like La Niña (cold eastern tropical Pacific). The winds are the trade winds. The figure greatly exaggerates the slope of the layer interface, because in reality the ocean is paper thin. Even a difference of 1000 m across the width of the Pacific (let's say 10,000 km) leads to a slope of only 1:10,000 – which no one could distinguish from a perfectly horizontal line without massive vertical exaggeration.
Now if during the transition from (a) to (b) the upper layer is heated by the greenhouse effect, its temperature could remain constant while that of the lower one warmed. Simple classical physics without beaming.
Beam me up Scotty! There is no intelligent life on this planet.
Tamino provides his usual detailed analysis of the new study by Kosaka and Xie.
Dana Nuccitelli in the Guardian on the same paper with some further interesting aspects that I have not talked about here.
Another important point that is often forgotten in the discussion: The data hole in the Arctic that explains part of the reduced warming trend (maybe even more than previously thought).
And a reminder: The warming trend of the 15-year period up to 2006 was almost twice as fast as expected (0.3°C per decade, see Fig. 4 here), and (rightly) nobody cared. We published a paper in Science in 2007 where we noted this large trend, and as the first explanation for it we named "intrinsic variability within the climate system". Which it turned out to be.
Recent Literature:
Levitus et al. (Geophysical Research Letters 2012). Documentation of the heat increase in the world's oceans since 1955. Included are uncertainty analyses, maps of the measurement coverage and many illustrations of the regional and vertical distribution of the warming.
Balmaseda et al. (Geophysical Research Letters 2013) shows among other things that El Niño events are associated with a strong loss of heat from the oceans. As discussed above, during an El Niño the ocean loses heat to the surface because the surface of the ocean (see Fig. (a) above) is unusually warm. Further, during volcanic eruptions the ocean cools but for another reason: because volcanic aerosols shade the sun and thus the oceans are heated less than normal.
Guemas et al. (Nature Climate Change 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years cannot be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the models.
Abraham et al. (Reviews of Geophysics 2013). Very recent, wide ranging review of temperature measurements in the oceans with a detailed discussion of the accuracy of the data, planetary energy balance and the effect of the warming on sea levels.


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Your pet should have an ISO (International Standardization Organization) compliant microchip placed. This number should be listed on the rabies certificate.
A rabies vaccination should be done AFTER the ISO microchip is placed. Any vaccinations before microchipping are irrelevant to importation and transportation. Make sure the microchip numbers is listed on the rabies certificate.
Health Certificates
A European Union Annex II veterinary certificate should be completed along with a United States Department of Agriculture USDA 7001 International Health Certificate for Small Animals should be completed. At least 21 days must have passed after the rabies vaccination before these documents can be signed for transport to Lithuania (this timing will vary between USDA offices). These must be done by a USDA accredited veterinarian and endorsed by the USDA. The timing of these documents depends on the origin location due to endorsement logistics.
We can provide all of these services for you or work with your veterinarian to assure that everything is done properly at the appropriate time.
AirVets Pet Relocation is a veterinarian owned and operated pet transportation company specializing in domestic and international animal transportation door to door anywhere in the world. Operating from our Dallas Fort Worth office, we are a member of the International Pet and Animal Transportation Association (IPATA) and are licensed by the USDA Intermediate Handler program. Dr. David Landers is a USDA accredited veterinarian certified to write international health certificates.


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On-Line Library BOOKS |
PLEASE CONTRIBUTE - even one page or one biography at a time, help us get a book on line. Books published 1923 or earlier are now beyond copyright restrictions.
Did your society or church publish a volume that has since sold out? If your group does not plan to reprint - please supply a copyright release and a copy of the book, we will make certain your material continues to be available to the public. Many centennial histories were written by committees during the last 30-40 years. Please have surviving members of the book committee, and current officers of the society/church sign that release. Share your work with the future. We'll return your book!
Pages about copyright: Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy by Michael Patrick Goad (or) USGenWeb Project Copyright page
"History of the State of Nebraska",
pub. A.T. Andreas, 1882
(EKIS production supervised by Connie Snyder, NE State Coordinator, & Dawson
Johnson's History of Nebraska, by Harrison Johnson, 1880
1890 Nebraska State Gazetteer (town listings of businesses, farmers lists for each county). Thanks to Bill Wever & a multitude of volunteer typists from the NE Heritage mail list.
Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska by A.E.Shelton, 1904 (Mardos Memorial Library)
"History & Stories of Nebraska" by A.E. Shelton, 1913 produced by Connie Snyder. "Oldtime Nebraska" website.
Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska 1909 containing a History of the State of Nebraska. Alden Publishing Company, Chicago. (Reproduction started in 1997 & was completed in Jan 2004) Many thanks to Marilyn Estrada and Chris Geis for hours of typing; to Brian Tingley for scans of the photos & sketches. Bill Wever made copies at NSHS Library, Knight Museum in Alliance loaned us the unbound pages from a book that had deteriorated for the final proofing! (T&CM)
Compendium of History
Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska 1912
Alden Publishing Company, Chicago. Containing a history of the State of
Nebraska, and over 1000 pages of biographical material. INDEX to
biographies is hot-linked. Thanks to P. Ebel, P. Shipley & Lenise
Cook. Note: This book originally done from material reproduced on a copy
machine. All photos were redone when Pam Rietsch was able to secure the
book for the use of NEGenWeb Project. Everyname index
completed! (T&CM)
AID - State
Nicknames! Help for those references to "the Old Dominion", "the
Wolverine state" or "the Mountain state", etc
18 Jun 1998 - TWO "Compendiums" now known - others possible? The general history
chapters seem to be identical, but the biographies are different.
History of Western Nebraska and It's People, Vol. III, 1921 by Grant L. Shumway- Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan and Sioux Counties. A group often called the Panhandle of Nebraska. (MARDOS Memorial Library)
History of Nebraska "From the Earliest Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi Region", by J. Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins. 1918, 2nd Edition - Edited and revised by Augustus O. Thomas, James A. Beattie, and Arthur C. Wakeley. Western Publishing and Engraving Co., Lincoln, NE. (MARDOS Memorial Library)
Franciscans of Nebraska, The - by the Rev. Eugene Hagedorn, O. F. M., 1931.
Prefaced by "Historical Sketches of Mid-Nebraska" by Francis Dischner.
Book loaned for reproduction by Columbus Public Library, thank you! Posted Jan 2005.
Note: Books & articles related to assorted religious denominations are linked from the NEGenWeb Religion page.
Memorial and Biographical Record
... containing Compendium of Local Biography ... for Butler, Polk,
Seward, York, and Fillmore Counties ... 1899, Geo. A. Ogle and Co. (Mardos Memorial Library, 2002)
Southeastern Nebraska, A Biographical and Genealogical History of - Vol I, 1904 - reproduction by Lori Laird
please see "Journals" page for the following partial collections
Nebraska Blue Books
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NE and Midwest Genealogical Record, etc.
1854-1904" © 1904 by Bee Publishing Co.
1904-1914", © 1915 by Omaha Daily Bee, a
portrait album produced by Lynn Waterman. Terrific!
"The Blue Book of Nebraska Women" - A collection of biographies from 1916. The women included are from many different counties. Produced by Charmaine Keith and posted to USGenWeb Project Archives. Thank you!
Nebraskana, 1932 - "Biographical sketches of Nebraska men and women of achievement ... " (Sep 2005, TCM)
Who's Who in Nebraska, 1940 published by NE Press Association. Index to bios. (Permission for reproduction arranged by Robin Mosier. Typing done by assorted CC's.)
"900 Famous Nebraskans" by E. A. Kral, on the Nebraska Press website.
Memorial and Biographical Record ... Butler, Polk, Seward, York and Fillmore Counties, 1899
"Atlas of Buffalo County, NE 1919", names of landowners, etc - produced by Mona Houser for the Buffalo County website.
Buffalo County Nebraska and It's People, Vol I and Vol. II, by S.C. Bassett - produced by Mona Houser for the Buffalo County website.
"In the World
War 1917-1918-1919 Buffalo County Nebraska" published by Oliver
F Brown Publishing Co, Kearney, Nebr., 1919. Under construction by Mona Houser
on the Buffalo County website.
"Burt County Nebraska in the World War, VICTORY" 1919 , published by The Burt County Herald, Tekamah, NE. (Produced by William Wever, T&C Miller with index.)
Clay County, 1886 Plat Book (has directory)
Johnson and Pawnee Counties, Portrait & Biographical Album of - Chicago, Chapman Bros.1889
"Lancaster County, Nebraska, "Portrait and Biographical Album of"- Chicago, Chapman Bros, 1888. Opening section is bios of US Presidents and NE Governors. Book loaned by Dick Taylor, Pawnee Co. CC. Thank you! Work on this book originally began with five articles (Anderton, Jeffery, Loder, Stearns, Walker) provided earlier on NE Roots list by a family researcher - Thanks to Vicki (Walker) Drake. (T&C Miller)
Lancaster County Honor Roll - World War I (Lancaster County website file)
Lincoln County - "North Platte and Its Associations", 1910 by Archibald R. Adamson (produced by descendent, Chris Geis, April 2003)
Merrick County, History of - from 1898 Nonpareil (newspaper)
Merrick County - 1921 Atlas and Plat Book
Merrick County's 100th Year: 1858-1958 - TOC and everyname index added.
Otoe & Cass Counties, NE, Portrait & Biographical Album of, - 1889
of Platte County, Nebraska by I. N. Taylor, 1876 - Platte County
page, produced by Sherri Brakenhoff.
"Platte County Nebraska, Past and Present
of" - ed. G.W. Phillips, 1915. History of the county & the
townships in one book, with a volume of biographical articles. (T&CM)
NEW - History of Platte County, Nebraska, 1950 by Margaret Curry. (T&CM, Dec 2005)
"History of Richardson County, NE", 1917 - website by Erin O'Brien. Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) documents. Thank you!
Volume I includes general county history. Volume II contains biographical sketches of various county residents.
Saline County Livestock Breeders Directory, 1920 (reproduced by Doris Peters, Nov 2004)
Saunders County - "Honor
Roll - 1917-1918-1919" Book about the veterans, and the activities
of the citizens during WW I. (Connie Snyder)
County History, Vol I - 1915 Vol.
II (complete, Aug 2007) - Saunders County website (Connie
Saunders County History, 1983 -
Saunders County website (Connie Snyder).
County, Nebraska, History of" by WW Cox, 1888.
Excerpts typed by Alice Stipak, from NE Roots List - another book that was begun on-line by a family researcher!
"Bellwood, Nebraska: The First 100 Years" (Bellwood Centennial 1880-1980), Bellwood History Book Committee, Robert M. Bell Chairman. (T&CM)
"Fullerton's First 100 Years 1879-1979", Nance Co. Historical Society, NE (with incomplete everyname index ) (T&CM)
1952 Kearney City Directory produced by Mona Houser for Buffalo County website. (MARDOS Memorial Library)
Lincoln "Prairie
Capital" - compilation published for Miller & Paine,
1930. Submitted by Kathie Harrison. Thank you!
Lincoln "Seeing
Lincoln" - illustrated tour of the capital from about 1940. Thanks to Kathie Harrison.
Lincoln Womens Club 1897-1898, booklet submitted by Suzanna Davenport, and appearing on the Lancaster County website.
"Omaha Illustrated", 1887-8 published by Dunbar. With indexes added.
Tekamah, Burt Co., NE - "Noteworthy Men of Tekamah and Vicinity", by Ott Brothers, 1905
Illustrated History of York, York Co., Nebraska, 1903 with
table of contents, name & photo indexes added. (T&CM)
These Fifty Years: A History of the College of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska, 1925 - by Robert P. Crawford
1920 Purebred Livestock Directory (reproduced by C. Snyder)
Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Banking Board, 1913.
Banks identified, with list of officers. Thanks to Lynn Waterman, previously CC of Holt County.
ETHNIC page - please check this link for
"The History of Czechs (Bohemians) in Nebraska" by Rose Rosicky, and other books/articles related to specific ethnic groups
of the Pioneers" a booklet by Frank McConnell, 1978. Some amusing incidents
from early history of Merrick County, NE. (T&CM)
NEBRASKA PENITENTIARY; Hell in Nebraska: A Tale of - (1913) by Walter Wilson (Nov 2006, Mardos Collection)
History of the United States of America by Charles A Goodrich, 1880. School text used c1891, Columbus, NE by 13-year-old.
Appendix includes advice on "How to Teach History"; text of Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and amendments; list of officials of the US
Government until 1880, list of states in the order admitted through number
Leading Facts of American History by
D. H. Montgomery, 1920. School text probably used in Columbus, NE about 1928.
Includes timeline of US History until 1920; some colored maps; tables of presidents,
boundaries, teritorial acquisitions. Index is better than most! Birthplaces & dates
given for many prominent figures (in footnotes). (T&CM)
"Overland Stage to
1901 by F. A. Root and Wm. Connelley - Frank Root was messenger on stagecoach
line and early employee of the US postal service. Material related to KS, CO & NE,
includes information on Overland drivers, messengers & station keepers.
PONY EXPRESS chapter. Photos & biographical information for some people
who are difficult to trace. Original index included. (T&CM
for Mardos Memorial Library SITE TEMPORARILY DOWN)
the Early Days Along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852"
- by Gilbert L. Cole, compiled by Mrs. Hardy, 1905.
"Journey Over the Oregon Trail", Diary by Frank Stevens, Apr 1880 - from Vesta, Johnson Co., NE to vicinity of Olympia, WA. Produced by Bob Goldsby for the Goldsby Family website.
The Trail of the Loup being a History of the Loup River Region ..., 1906 by H. W. Fought. Produced by Pam Rietsch. (Biographical material for Valley, Garfield and Greeley Counties)
Pictorial History of the Locomotive -
Reports and Maps of the Fort Kearney, South Pass,
and Honey Lake Wagon Road, 1861 (Congressional Report - Ex. Doc. No.
64) (T&CM for Mardos Memorial Library)
Dangers of the Trail, 1912 by Charles E. Young - 1865 trip to Denver, CO (reproduced 2005 for Mardos Memorial Library)
Yearbooks - see the "Journals" page for 1915, 1918 & 1926 UNL Annuals (done
for MARDOS MEMORIAL LIBRARY)
1912 University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Annual with many photos (Juniors, Seniors and Graduate students; group photos of organizations on campus). Book loaned by Barbara Giffin Swift. She also has "1928 Directory of Alumni " (1873-1927). Please send name & year of graduation if you would like a lookup.
"The University School of Music", Thirty-fifth Annual Catalog, 1928-29. Provided by Kathie Harrison
These Fifty Years: A History of the College of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska, 1925 -
by Robert P. Crawford (T&CM)
Mary (Bartashunas) & Vitas Mardos Memorial Library Collection AID - State Nicknames! Help for those references to "the Old Dominion", "the Wolverine state" or "the Mountain state", etc. |
IN PRODUCTION - "A Biographical and Genealogical History of Southeastern Nebraska" 1904, published by Lewis Publishing Co. INDEX. Produced by Lori Laird, Gage County website. She's working on the biographies - pages and pages!!
UNDER CONSTRUCTION "History of Western Nebraska and Its People" Vol I - Grant L. Shumway, 1921. Western Publishing, Lincoln.
Photo collection starting with "Soldier Boys in the World War" & school pictures; early photos from Cheyenne County.
Some text available via the Table of Contents for Cheyenne, Deuel & Kimball Counties; also some chapters on early cattle ranching.
Thanks to Sandy Smith for scanning & sending. Vol III complete
- see MARDOS COLLECTION above.
Buffalo County portion - Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney and Phelps, 1890 - on Buffalo county website.
Dakota County Atlas, 1911 - list of patrons, from Dakota website, provided by Jerry Duggan
Dawson County, 1919 Plat Book - produced by Connie Snyder (working on maps)
Hall County chapters of "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton Counties", (Goodspeed Publishing Company 1890. Press of John Morris Company.) from Hall county website by Kaylynn Loveland.
A single biography for HOEVET of Clay County, submitted by William Hoevet. Thank you!
Hamilton County History, 1890 - Portion of "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton Counties". (Goodspeed Publishing Company 1890. Press of John Morris Company.) from Hamilton county website by Connie Snyder.
"Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa" by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891
EXCERPTS that include NEBRASKA RELATIVES & references - contributed by Mona Sarratt Knight. Thank you!
Civil War Chapters, of children's textbook "Eclectic Primary History of the United States" by Edward S. Ellis, A. M. Published by Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co. of Cincinnati & New York. Copyright 1884. (T&CM)
Martindale's Commercial and Legal Guide - Spring 1886: Nebraska Collections Laws. Lawyers list added 6 May 2002. (Scans provided by Tim Stowell, thank you!)
Custer Books - Bits and Pieces - thanks to Judy Morrison:
History of Custer County, Nebraska, by Gaston & Humphrey, 1919. Bios for surnames: Helmuth (2), Keyes, & Mary.
Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska, by Butcher, 1901. "Redfern Table" (pp 317-319)
"Killing of Two Cowboys at Anselmo" - article. Book title not known, identified only as from "a history of Custer County". Rec'd from Judy Laros "I retyped it ...because my Great Grandparents, Adam and Henrietta Prouse McKnight witnessed the events in this story."
OldTime Nebraska - website by Dick Taylor |
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Nebraska Photo Album - Links to lists / indexes to photographs, portraits & sketches on NEGenWeb Project
Links to postcard collections can be found there!
Some history books for particular
counties or communities are offered through the local societies, check the
county pages (a link to list of counties appears in table just above).
If you have material to contribute to this page, please contact us.
TRY - Search Engine for NEBRASKA info (data from assorted sources, provided for you on his own website) Thank you, Tom & Connie.
The NEGenWeb Project On-Line Library includes:
- Please check for old journals of the Nebraska Genealogical Society
and NSHS, reports on annual meetings of a portion of the M.E. Church.
Some links to newsletters of regional & local societies. 2002:
Added publications that appeared as part of series, such as "NE
Legislative Handbooks", "NE Blue Books", UNL Cornhuskers, etc. Some
reproduced as part of Mardos Memorial Library, others from copies
donated by individuals.
MAPS and Atlases
- geographical aids, links to Mardos Collection which includes 1895 US
Gazetteer and the 1891 Shippers Gazetteer (several states, several
Paul Riley Collection for Southwest Nebraska -
under construction, by Brenda Lawless Daniel (coordinator of Hayes & Hitchcock
Counties) and Tom Cory (coordinator of Furnas and Red Willow Counties).
NEGenWeb Project "Etc. page".
Some educational and historical leaflets published
by NSHS, and reproduced with their permission. (Civil War, Sodhouse, etc.)
"Genealogist's Corner" column by Cindy
Drake which appears in NSHS monthly newsletter, includes guides to NE records.
NEWSPAPERS , including information about microfilm by interlibrary loan - website under construction
NSGS & NSHS collection of newspaper extracts.
Thanks to both organizations!
Publications & links to various NE Veterans lists are available on other NEGenWeb Project county websites and may/may not be repeated in this library list -
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been published on the net, but the file is on the page of some other
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obsure or old genealogical or historical journals, personal papers,
etc. (We're not looking for a link to your personal genealogy website
here - recommend you request a link on the Nebraska county page that is
appropriate). Appreciate any info about links that you can provide. T&C Miller
Nebraska Negro Homesteaders - Reprinted courtesy of Nebraskaland magazine. Thanks to Marianne & Doris.
Nebraska State Historical Society is preparing an index to all the "HISTORY" Journals; this valuable resource will hopefully be available soon.
"Nebraska ... Our Towns": History of the state, and history of individual towns (including photographs). UNL website.
OTHER websites:
AHGP (American History & Genealogy Project)
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Nebraska Libraries (shortcut list to those with websites)
Nebraska Library Commission (Electronic Library)
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Academic Info
Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
American Memory, website of Library of Congress
WPA LIFE STORIES for Nebraska (305 titles)
Kansas Collection (EKIS)
LDS Family Search
Library of Congress (homesite)
Making of America (University of Michigan)
NAIL data base, on-line collections of NARA (National Archives & Records Administration w/search engine)
University of Nebraska, Archives and Special Collections
University of Texas at Austin, "Library Online" - encyclopedias, maps, dictionaries & language aides, etc.
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For years it was seen as the worst of times: bloated, crass, witlessly extravagant. But now scholars are beginning to find some of the era's unexpected virtues.
August/September 1984
ANYONE WHO RECALLS the Gilded Age from an American history course taken twenty or more years ago would be surprised at how the treatment of that era has changed. Most historians used to hold a rather low opinion of the period. Remember Grover Cleveland's illegitmate child, who figured in the campaign of 1884? And how business appeared dominant in every sphere of life? How Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes with monopolistic "trusts"? And how, toward the era's end, when lightning seemed to strike everywhere at once, farmers staged a revolt that frightened almost everyone else half to death?
The facts about the Gilded Age have not changed, but historians' views have. The first scholarly interpretations of any period have a lasting impact, and every generation tends to be critical of its immediate predecessor. In this case, the determining views first came from some famous contemporaries. Mark Twain gave the period (which lasted roughly from 1868 to 1900) its textbook name in The Gilded Age (1873), the novel he wrote with Charles Dudley Warner. As literature it was a weak performance, but it produced some durable images of social climbing and shady political dealings. The book also encapsulated the country's traditional boomer spirit based on mindless expansion, which the period seemed to typify. The English diplomat James Bryce added the weight of analytical thought to that stereotype with The American Commonwealth (1888). Bryce admired the nation's economic dynamism and social flexibility but feared that democracy too often bred mediocrity and wondered if a civilization that so emphasized material gain could produce any true culture. Above all American tolerance of weak and shabby behavior in public life disturbed him.
The first historians of the Gilded Age built upon these contemporary views. Early textbooks couched the period in terms of wars between labor and capital, of settled Americans rising against immigrants, of outmoded ideas facing new social problems. They described politics as corrupt, and government, especially the federal government, as weak and unconcerned with human problems. The nation's blacks had been trapped in segregation and poverty, and the surviving Indians had been isolated on reservations. Perhaps most disturbing to early historians, the period had begun with a society on a scale that people could comprehend, yet it ended with an economic system based on corporations, chaotic cities, and feeble government at all levels. The historian Charles Beard maintained much of the stereotype in The Rise of American Civilization (1927) and America in Midpassage (1939), which influenced generations of college students. The radical writer Matthew Josephson excoriated the period in two widely read books, The Robber Barons (1934), whose thesis was its title, and The Politicos (1938), which depicted Gilded Age politicians as the flunkies of the corporations.
There was an alternative viewpoint, a thoughtful approach, which Allan Nevins, more than any other student of the period, fostered. Influential both as a biographer and as a professor of history at Columbia University, Nevins edited a major group of books about the era's leading figures. His own Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932), was the most famous of these, and many others remain the standard biographies of their subjects. Nonetheless, the pace of development in Gilded Age studies was slow, partly because historians emphasized other periods and problems.
By the late 1950s, a new generation of scholars started to rethink the issues of the Gilded Age. Their first focus was on politics. No era had debated partisan questions more fervently. The issues had seemed remote and unimportant to scholars later, but they had fascinated and moved voters at the time.
On such issues as the levying of tariffs on foreign imports, which the early historians portrayed as simply a tool for helping big business, the new writers pointed out that this protection had not especially benefited the railroads or the oil industry, two of the supposed villains of the age. Supporters of high tariffs, who included workers in many industries, had defended them as a means of safeguarding American jobs, of helping producers of certain raw materials, and of shielding small business from foreign competition. Politically, the policy had been central to the Republican coalition, since it promised to promote economic growth among various likely GOP voters.
The political debate over the currency—tight money versus easy money—had equally bewildered early historians. Many Gilded Age farmers favored inflation to counteract the growing value of their debts after wheat and cotton prices nose-dived; some businessmen also liked easy money because low interest rates enabled them to expand operations. This issue tended to pit Westerners and Southerners, who needed cash for economic development, against the East, but it also had a powerful moral component. Those who favored a currency based on some intrinsic value such as gold stood divided from those who saw money as a flexible device for regulating the nation's economic health. In the broadest sense, the currency debate highlighted the complexity of the national economy and the growing difference of opinion over the role of government in it. In 1964 Irwin Unger elucidated the subject in a Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis, The Greenback Era.
By the 1960s some historians had begun to argue that scholars in the 1930s, who revered a powerful Executive and an interventionist federal government, had read their biases into the study of the Gilded Age. Congress had remained more powerful than the Presidency during the period, and as often as not, one or both houses had not been of the President's party; this explained the partisan deadlocks and compromises of the time. The national political scene had been one long struggle to build a new majority, a battle the Republicans finally won in 1894 and 1896. The highest rate of voter participation in American history occurred in the 188Os and 189Os, and the closeness of most elections and the sense of a major struggle for power reflected people's intense interest in politics. If voting, public discussion of issues, and legislative enactments constitute democracy, the Gilded Age was one of the most democratic periods in American history.
In 1963 I published a symposium, The Gilded Age: A Reappraisal , in which leading young scholars presented new views of the era's major public issues. (A second edition appeared in 1970.) Then in 1969 I brought out a narrative account of Gilded Age politics, From Hayes to McKinley . I liked the Republicans better than the Democrats because of their record against slavery and because they had attempted to build a truly national economy during the late nineteenth century. The Democrats seemed to me to have been a loose coalition of local and often conflicting interests. The party had feared and opposed federal authority because it threatened Democratic urban machines in the North and white rule in the South.
The traditional historian's criticism of the lack of federal action in solving social problems during this period was ahistorical. Neither the consensus nor the machinery for such activity was available. Most Gilded Age Americans were content to leave such matters as public health, housing, and welfare to local government and private philanthropy. The typical citizen thought of the federal government only when picking up the mail, paying a modest excise tax on whiskey or tobacco, or seeing a serviceman in uniform. Nonetheless, the government did slowly get more involved in social problems, with much debate, as Ari Hoogenboom noted when delineating the struggle over civil service reform in Outlawing the Spoils (1961), and as Morton Keller recounted in Affairs of State (1979). Congress laid substantial groundwork for expanded action with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and civil service reform.
In the 1960s and 1970s the computer allowed historians to ask and answer many new questions about Gilded Age politics. Using methods of quantification borrowed from other social sciences, some scholars turned from studying party battles to analyzing the composition of the electorate, and from the national to the local scene. They concluded that political preferences had often been rooted less in economic positions than in ethnic and religious tensions. Tariff and currency questions had not been as important to voters as the compulsory teaching of English in public schools or the drive for Prohibition, which touched deeply held beliefs. (Catholics, for instance, had tended to oppose Prohibition, which they saw as an attempt to make them conform to a standard of personal conduct that Protestants upheld, and since Prohibitionists were often Republicans, Catholics usually voted Democratic.) The most influential scholar promoting this new theory has been Samuel P. Hays, author of American Political History as Social Analysis (1980).
BY THE 1980S THIS approach was widely accepted but had its critics. It was based mostly on studies of Midwestern states such as Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Would it appear equally valid elsewhere? The quantifiers had produced a sharper picture of who voted but not necessarily of why they voted as they did. And did it really follow that national politics was secondary to local affairs? Perhaps the two were merely different. The quantifiers' books were filled with statistics and complicated jargon and focused on groups and trends rather than on individuals. Surely something was missing. Their tone was that of the metronome, but Gilded Age politics had marched to the sound of the calliope and brass band.
Any new synthesis of Gilded Age politics will be convincing only if it recognizes voting behavior as both culturally determined and a product of the complex national political system. It is important to remember, for instance, that politicians of the Gilded Age set the agenda. And people responded strongly to personalities, just as they do today. Furthermore, people's hopes and fears about their own jobs were important. Local contests and presidential elections had different dynamics, and voters, as always, had multiple personalities. The best syntheses of the various new approaches are found in Richard J. Jensen's The Winning of the Midwest (1971) and R. Hal Williams's Years of Decision (1978).
Historians' treatments of business and economic development during the Gilded Age have changed as much as their ideas about politics. Most scholars remain suspicious of large corporations and continue to disapprove of the great wealth that a few industrialists acquired during the period. Standard accounts usually have contained descriptions of lavish mansions where the feckless rich disported themselves, oblivious of the working classes. But such types no more reflect the typical entrepreneur of the time than flashy jet setters reflect most businessmen of today. The typical Gilded Age businessman ran a small company, and many of the antisocial actions of businessmen large and small resulted less from greed or malice than from a desperate need to "meet the competition."
Josephson's The Robber Barons , a best seller in the 1930s, soundly established the antibusiness view. Once again Nevins provided a corrective, with his monumental biography of the era's most famous entrepreneur, John D. Rockefeller (1940). Nevins did not whitewash Rockefeller or the practices of the Standard Oil Company, but he pointed out that Rockefeller and his partners faced ruthless competition and an uncertain economy and worked in a milieu that emphasized struggle, not regulation. Nevins portrayed the corporation as a complex institution. Not all big businesses were entirely honest, in his view, but the scope and complexity of the Gilded Age economy had made their evolution inevitable.
NEVINS'S BOOK ON Rockefeller sparked considerable controversy, and many historians did not approve of it. But like it or not, the book forced them to reconsider their moralistic ideas about business history. The most impressive economic revisionist of Nevins s generation was probably Edward C. Kirkland. In Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900 (1956), he showed how bewildered businessmen had had to adapt their inherited attitudes and ideals, rooted in a world of farms and small towns, to modern industrial society. His magisterial work Industry Comes of Age (1961) is basic to understanding the era.
Kirkland excelled at dealing with important subjects that earlier scholars had slighted. He showed how the inventions of Alexander Graham Bell, George Westinghouse, and Thomas A. Edison created entire industries, and how improvements in education helped prepare a generation of workers for the kinds of jobs the new economy required. He pointed out that while the country was wealthier than ever in the Gilded Age, it went through cycles of boom and bust that made planning difficult and the future uncertain. Productivity increased, but too often profits declined. Businessmen were not the lords of creation that Josephson had described but fallible human beings at the mercy of inscrutable market forces.
Kirkland also shifted the focus in economic studies, making the total economy the star of the show. He noted that the new industrial order was much too large and complex for any one set of people to understand or control. He showed the cumulative nature of much economic development—Edison's work on electricity, for instance, produced not only a successful electric light bulb, with all its ramifications in human affairs, but also a whole range of new industries that relied on electrical power. Time and again Kirkland demonstrated how economic processes had changed society at large, and he revealed the difficulties inherent in trying to predict or manage these changes. He was especially careful to remind readers that less noticed developments, such as expanded educational facilities, had often aided growth and diversification as much as had widely touted and debated public policies.
As time passed and the literature on economic development grew in volume and sophistication, historians turned from tycoons and corporations to the anonymous people who had made the economy work. Alfred D. Chandler, in The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977), described the activities and ideas of corporate managers who had often been below-decks engineers rather than captains, yet had made the ships go. Chandler's approach made business history more human and portrayed both the individual business and the total economic system as much more complex and tenuous than had earlier studies.
Parallel tendencies animate modern labor history. Strikes and union organization marked the Gilded Age, but nowadays historians look beyond these events to the social composition of the labor force, the nature of the workplace, and economic mobility. They have shown how workers influenced economic development, how accommodation often modified the antagonism between capital and labor. Trade unionism did improve the workers' lot, but fraternal and community organizations also helped them cope with social and economic change. And most workers believed that they, or at least their children, could move up the ladder, not necessarily to be a boss, but at least to be a foreman. Historians' emphasis on how workers lived has made the labor movement more real, more personal, and more logical in its relationship to later labor matters.
Gilded Age revisionism extends to literature and art. Here progress has been slow because of the unfortunate division between historians of culture and historians of public affairs. This breach must close before a unified view of the period can emerge. Late-nineteenth-century fiction, for instance, has much to offer the historian seeking to understand the period's intangible moods, fears, and aspirations. William Dean Howells's prodigious output constitutes a magnificent survey of relationships among various classes. There are few better ways to understand the struggle between capital and labor than through Howells's novel A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). This great story pivots on a violent streetcar workers' strike in New York City and depicts the reactions of the new urban middle class to supposedly radical immigrants. Most of Howells's works reflect the social, economic, and geographic interdependence and human strains that industrialization created.
Painting is an equally valuable source for historians. The canvases of the Gilded Age richly illustrate the period's appearance, customs, and activities. Genre studies, portraits, and landscapes say much about how people saw themselves. Beginning in the late 187Os, an increasing number of young people, many of them women, chose art as an alternative to business or a professional career. Study in Paris, London, or Munich offered them an artistic tradition as well as technical training.
New York became the nation's cultural capital during the era, but the arts flourished in most large cities. Gradually a clientele of middle-class buyers emerged, along with professional critics who described and analyzed artistic developments in the popular press and magazines. The art world was the scene of debates as fierce as those that raged in politics and economics, and the succession of styles—realism, impressionism, abstractionism—reflected social as well as aesthetic changes. Viewed in its full context, the art world of the Gilded Age poses fascinating questions for the student of American society.
Buildings have faced a harsher test, being more durable and visible, and until recently historians were unkind to much of the era's architecture. The period's transitional nature showed in its buildings. The new industrial order based on machine goods and congested cities called for new kinds of factories and commercial edifices, but people were more traditional when it came to designing homes or public structures. A need for reassurance and familiarity made historical associations popular in architecture. The society's fluidity and individualism also enhanced the appeals of eclecticism, so that Grecian, Gothic, and other historical styles each had a day, sometimes all at once. Meanwhile, both patrons and architects sought a form of expression that would be appropriate to American ideals and practices and would express modern energy yet would not leave the mainstream of Western history and culture.
The result was often a jumble. Many houses and skyscrapers boasted the latest mechanical contrivances on the inside—central heating, electric lighting, and a planned flow pattern—while juggling a variety of tastes and associations with the past on the outside. They were not organic, according to many contemporary critics and later historians, and therefore were not genuine or suited to modern times. As one Gilded Age observer said of the so-called Queen Anne style, which incorporated many echoes of the past, it was Queen Anne in front and Mary Anne behind. Much urban housing, built hastily and without planning, took on a sameness in the brownstone front. Yet these buildings seem both suitable and charming todav. At its best, well-made middle-class housing allowed for color, variety, and even whimsy, traits lacking in the styles that followed, when standardization triumphed.
In public building, the period produced several important architects. Henry Hobson Richardson's use of rough stone and his emphasis on mass reflected a national respect for power and scope and thus more than echoed the Romanesque style that inspired him. McKim, Mead and White's urbane variations on Italian Renaissance Classicism reflected an attachment to grand ideals in a time of rapid change. Many architects hoped to soften the commercial spirit with historical associations in architecture. They also wanted buildings to function in an emotional as well as technical sense. A university, for instance, should reflect inherited ideals about learning. Government buildings should express traditional ideas of legitimacy and power. At the same time, many architects were trying to adapt to the new demand for tall buildings in confined spaces, designing structures that used familiar ornament and proportion to reassure both the passerby outside and the worker inside.
Historians have criticized this conflict of styles and purposes, but the triumph of the later International style, making almost every city in the country look somewhat alike, has finally provoked a reexamination of Gilded Age building. A strong public preservation movement has arisen to save and use many of the artifacts in question, and the best Gilded Age architecture has become both more understandable and more attractive.
Despite all the interesting work that has been done on the Gilded Age in recent years, a sense of uncertainty dominates the field. No fresh synthesis of information and ideas has appeared. The historians have shaken old generalizations but have produced no totally convincing new ones and have too often made the period seem bland or abstract.
Transition is a catchword for describing confusing epochs, but it fits this one perfectly. In one generation a nation of farms, workshops, and small towns became a society of cities, factories, and complex social and economic organizations, whose operations challenged inherited ideals. The people of the Gilded Age displayed great energy and were certain of themselves in some spheres while very uncertain in others. They produced and acted upon familiar compromises and struggled to balance individualism with the ever-growing tendency toward mass in an industrial society.
In politics, parochial interests confronted the need for national policies, and contesting groups often prevented planned responses to crises. But the political system remained flexible; no group was permanently alienated, and that was no mean achievement. In the economic-sphere people hoped to retain the advantages of competition while enjoying the benefits of large-scale production. The system produced about as much regulation as the general public wanted and allowed the rise of the world's most productive economy. In cultural affairs, the generation could boast many distinctive figures, a broad range of activity in the literary and plastic arts, and a steadily growing level of public appreciation.
Studying this fascinating era reminds us of how slowly people adapt to change. It is a great mistake to suppose that the Gilded Age could somehow have prevented the problems that confront us today, but it merits close attention because in many ways it resembles our own generation. We, too, are moving rapidly into a new economy, with all the consequent human and societal upheavals. Many of the public questions we grapple with today resemble those of the Gilded Age—the place of minorities in society; the problems of a wave of foreign immigration; women's rights; government's role in shaping social development. Questions of monetary policy and tariff protection are also very much alive. Like our predecessors in the Gilded Age, we face a changing social and economic order whose future seems glamorous and filled with potential for good but is also tinged with danger and uncertainty.


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Over 1999-2000, Mr. Rice returned to his native Scotland to help with the international economic dimensions of the devolution project that was launched with the establishment of the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years. At that time, he published a book entitled "Scotland's Global Opportunity".
Mr. Rice earned his PhD in Modern History from Glasgow University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. His PhD thesis on the establishment of the US Peace Corps was later published as The Bold Experiment. He is also a graduate of Harvard's Management Development Program and has served as Visiting Professor at Glasgow University.
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Rugby wheelchair manufacturer increases productivity 30 to 50%, improves quality by switching to inverter-based welder with advanced waveform technology.
Although it's called "wheelchair rugby" or "quad rugby"— it's played by paraplegic athletes in wheelchairs—neither term really captures the sport's speed or intensity as does its original name: Murderball.
Nor do the athletes fit the stereotypical image of paraplegics, and their chairs bear only a passing resemblance to standard wheelchairs. This, as you might have guessed from the "murderball" name, is a tough sport. The rugby chairs are specialized equipment, designed to withstand full-speed, violent collisions; some are designed with special pickers in the front to hook an opponent's wheelchair, which is, in turn, designed to stop that from occurring.
It is a highly competitive sport and each athlete wants the lightest, toughest and fastest chair available. Only a few manufacturers have risen to meet the increasing demand for rugby chairs; of these, Vesco Metal Craft (VMC) is arguably the leader—10 of the 12 players on the U.S. National Team compete in a VMC rugby chair.
VMC is a relatively small company with an enviable reputation for delivering high quality products. It's owned and operated by Neil Vesco, his father, Tom Vesco, and Paul Richardson. Neil does the welding, as well as fabricating the wings and pickers, and uses his expertise as a mechanical engineer to design and evaluate new products for the company.Until recently, Tom did all of the chair fit up. Now with a new fabricator on board, Tom splits his time between fit-up and final assembly. Paul Richardson, a quad rugby competitor himself, handles customer service.
Although an everyday wheelchair could be used, it is doubtful whether anything other than a rugby chair could withstand the punishment dished out in a wheelchair rugby game. Made from 6061 seamless drawn aluminum tubing, which is heat treated to T-6 condition after welding, VMC chairs are lightweight, custom-made to an individual athlete's requirements. They're designed to take a beating.
"There are chairs out there that are five years old and that are beat up almost beyond recognition, but you can tell by looking at the welds that they're our chairs," says Neil. "The first thing 90 percent of our customers notice when they first see one of our chairs is how phenomenal the welds are. That's one thing that makes our chairs stand out."
Making those welds recently got easier and faster. Since switching to Miller Dynasty 350 AC/DC TIG inverters and the advanced waveform control they offer, VMC has been able to decrease welding time by 30-50 percent, while further improving the appearance, strength and weight of their chairs—VMC can now use lighter material and weld in places that previously went unwelded. They are now catching up on back orders and looking toward developing other products, such as "everyday" wheelchairs, for people with disabilities.
VMC makes offensive, defensive, and mid-point (a chair that has a little of both offensive and defensive features) rugby chairs. As mentioned, a defensive chair features pickers to grab an offensive player's chair, which in turn has wings to block the pickers (see photos).
Each chair is custom-made to suit the individual player's seat (or dump) angle, rear seat height, the front seat height, the seat width, the seat depth, the inside wheel clearance, the camber angle of the wheels, the frame length, footrest position and the picker style.
To be legal for competition, chairs must meet specifications set by the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation. Initially, VMC frequently changed the design of their chairs to keep up with changes in the sport and to find better ways to decrease weight.
"For the first two years, I don't think we ever put out more than five chairs where we didn't make another change," Neil said. "The sport evolved quickly. The faster the guys got, the better they got and the more they're abusing the chairs and occasionally cracking them. Chair components needed to be improvised constantly—gussets here and there. It got to the point where we were adding so many gussets and tubes, trying to make them strong enough, but they were still cracking and were getting too heavy."
It seemed they would have to trade speed for weight to withstand the rigors of the sport. There were two reasons for that. Initially they used .095 wall tubes, and the cracks, when they occurred, were in the heat-affected zone (HAZ), so they switched to.120 wall tube. This helped minimize cracking but added detrimental weight to the chairs.
Also, the limitations of the their conventional technology TIG unit would not allow Neil to weld in all the spots he felt he needed to. Those spots could be a source of failure.
To resolve these issues, two solutions were explored. First, Tom decided to try heat treating the aluminum. Then, Don Peterson from Miller Electric recommended a Dynasty 350® AC/DC TIG inverter and arranged for a VMC to try a test unit. Both steps had immediate benefits.
"Since we began heat treating, we haven't had one break in the HAZ, and we were able to change the wall thickness from .120 to .083, which reduced the weight from 38 to 35 lbs," Neil said. "For someone with limited dexterity and muscle movement, that's a substantial change. The player can definitely feel it."
Vesco now sends a batch of four chairs at a time to a local company to be heat-treated. The frames are gusseted and put in fixtures to maintain the specifications. They are then heated to 985 degrees F for 45 minutes and then dropped into a glycol solution to rapidly bring the temperature down. At that time they're in a T-0 state and easy to tweak, so the frames are then straightened and aligned. Lastly they are put in another oven at 350 degrees F for 8 hours to bring them to a T-6 condition.
Peterson's suggestion, the Miller Dynasty 350 field-test unit, worked so well that, "We're not giving it back," said Tom, who has since then bought a second one. The Dynasty 350 is an AC/DC TIG inverter that features independent amplitude/amperage control, extended balance control, AC frequency control and AC waveforms control (advance squarewave, soft squarewave, sine wave, and triangular wave). These features allow the operator to tailor the arc to his specific job requirements and preferences.
By switching to the Dynasty 350, the company increased productivity by 30 to 50 percent. Since VMC manufactures three to four chairs per week, each requiring a substantial amount of welding, this increase meant producing an additional chair and a half to two chairs per week, while also improving the quality and appearance of the weld.
"The Dynasty 350 welds phenomenally," says Neil, who was immediately productive with the new unit. "The diversity of the different waveforms¾from welding thick aluminum with a regular advanced squarewave to welding thin aluminum with the triangular wave¾ is what makes it ideal as far as we're concerned. Then add in the ability to set EN and EP current independently, along with the ability to vary the AC frequency between 20 – 400 HZ , and we get better looking, deeper penetrating welds than ever before. We're finding that, regardless of how we set it up, it welds just phenomenally."
Because of Aluminum's unique properties, such as its excellent thermal conductivity coupled with a low melting point, the Dynasty 350's ability to precisely control heat led to significant savings.
"With our previous unit, the colder the material, the more heat you had to put into it initially," Neil says. "Developing the weld puddle was time consuming."
Then Neil tried the Dynasty 350.
"When we first got the Dynasty 350, it was still set with the factory settings, and it welded better than any machine I've ever used. Then I found out how much I could actually change the characteristics of the arc, which really surprised me. It actually got better than where it started. By turning the frequency up and the balance down, we're able to get a deeper penetrating weld and put much less heat into the frames."
Neil Vesco's welds are like a signature on every VMC chair. Most of VMC's customers comment on the high quality.
Neil put the Dynasty through its paces, using it on an aluminum bicycle that needed repair.
"I had never welded anything that thin (.030-in.), but the Dynasty 350's triangular wave provided such a focused arc that's so easy to control, even on material that thin. I don't have to worry about the heat absorption of the material. I can just strike an arc and immediately get a weld pool going and continue without a lot of heat being absorbed in the material."
Additional time is saved because switching tungsten, either because of balling or for different weld requirements, has also virtually disappeared.
"With the Dynasty [350], I weld everything with a 1/8-in. electrode," says Neil. "I can use it on everything from .065 tubing all the way up to the ¼-in. plate on the front of the chair. To make the welds aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound with our previous unit, I had to match the tungsten to the weld, which required a lot of tungsten changing. Our [previous machine] demanded you use as small as a 1/16-in. electrode."
Additionally, the electrodes last much longer on the Dynasty 350. Previously, Neil would have to dress them frequently because at 230 amps, the tungsten would start melting, leading to balling and a large dispersion arc.
"On our old machine, the cleaning action (EP) was so poor that you had to turn the balance down to get proper cleaning. Then you could no longer maintain the correct electrode geometry," says Neil. "Now, I don't have to dress the electrode due to balling. You can actually maintain a sharp point on the electrode with the Dynasty 350."
The Dynasty 350's ability to maintain a sharp electrode and concentrated arc also allows Neil to weld in corners he previously could not unless he extended the electrode outside the shielding gas, which exposed the weld to contamination.
"Now, I can keep the tungsten back in the cup and still get the arc way back in the corners where I wasn't able to get them before. Previously those spots went unwelded and could be a source of cracking."
The weld quality is a continuing source of pride for VMC. "All of our customers call to congratulate us on how good the frame looks," Neil says. (See photo) "I would say the first thing they say when they see the chairs is how phenomenal the welds are. We set a new standard on the market and our chairs are substantially better crafted than the next guy's out there. The welds are phenomenal on our chairs, and that's one thing that stands out."
With the increased productivity, improved weld quality and lower power costs, the VMC team sees the Miller Dynasty as having a huge impact on their business.
"Because all of our jobs depend on everyone else getting their jobs done, if I can get in here and weld more chairs for the week, then everyone else has something to do the following week," says Neil. "If I don't get my job done in time, Tom can't do his and Paul can't do his."
This time savings has allowed VMC to catch up with their backorders for the first time, freeing up time to devote to R&D into other products for people with disabilities. They are now also able to expand their operation with the addition of another trained welder. Finding someone highly skilled in aluminum TIG welding can be difficult, but the Dynasty 350 even made that easier.
"You pick up the Dynasty 350 and you can weld right away," says Neil. "The person we just hired sat down and welded with the Dynasty and smiled from ear to ear. He got up and said, 'I can't believe how well that welder works. I can make any weld look good on that thing.' And the truth of the matter is, you can. Unless you just started welding today, you can put down a phenomenal bead with that thing."
Assuming a rate of a skilled aluminum TIG welder at $30 an hour, a company saving 30 to 50 percent in welding time would save $1,600-$2,400 in welding time alone, paying for a Dynasty 350 in 2-5 months. (A Dynasty 350 list for about $6,500; with a TIGRunner kit, which includes a cooling system and cart, it lists for about $8,300).
Neil estimates that VMC's Dynasty 350 has paid for itself in the first month-and-a-half of operation, through increased productivity and decreased energy bills. With its low power draw (26 A at 230 V three-phase for a 250 A, 30V 100 percent duty cycle), the Dynasty 350 is much more efficient than the company's previous single-phase unit.
The Dynasty 350 delivers 5-350 A (300 A at 32 V 60% duty cycle), enough power to weld ¾-in. thick aluminum and features Miller's unique Auto-Line power management technology, which allows it to run from any input power, 208-575 V, 1- or 3-phase.
"With the previous unit, I used to watch how fast the meter would turn when he'd start welding and it looked like a fan spinning," Tom said. "Now power consumption is so low, it's ridiculous. I know Neil likes the way the machine works, but I like the power factor. It's a major, major difference in what we're saving on power."
But even more than the power, Tom likes the increased productivity and what it means to VMC's future.
"Now we have time to do other things," says Tom. "If we're constantly trying to keep up with orders for rugby chairs, we really can't grow and expand. Now we can devote some time to R&D for other products. The Dynasty 350 has freed up time to do that."
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