Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Norman R. Ball; John N. Vardalas

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ferranti-Packard was one of Canada's earliest manufacturers to employ some of the most significant technologies of this century -- those involved in the production of electric power, automobiles, and computers. In this illustrated corporate history of Ferranti-Packard, Norman Ball and John Vardalas survey the research, development, design, and marketing decisions adopted by the company in an effort to commercialize these technologies in a North American market dominated by a few corporate giants.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
1 The Technology that Gave Birth to Ferranti-Packard
2 Birth of Packard Electric
3 Ferranti Arrives in Canada
4 Ferranti Builds a Manufacturing Base in Canada
5 Packard Electric, 1912–1945
6 Ferranti and Packard
7 From Canadian to North American
8 Birth of the Electronics Division
9 The Rise and Fall of Canada's First Commercial Computer
10 End of an Era
Epilogue: Ferranti-Packard's Journey to Rolls-Royce
Chronology
Notes
Index
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