Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
A provincial city helped build the modern world. This book starts with George Boole, the Cork professor whose logic runs inside every computer, then follows the thread out to Henry Ford, whose family came from Ballinascarthy and whose plant on the Marina put Cork on wheels. You will read about the factory city of Dunlop and Sunbeam, its collapse in the 1980s, and the reinvention that brought Pfizer and Apple. Ten chapters on how Cork made itself, lost itself, and made itself again. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
All ten books, including this one, come together in The Cork Stories Collection for €24.99, a saving of almost €35 on buying them one at a time.
What's inside:
Prologue: The Edge of the Map
1. The Shoemaker's Son
2. From Boole to the Machine
3. The Ford of Ballinascarthy
4. The Marina Plant
5. A City of Factories
6. The Harbour Works
7. The Collapse
8. The Reinvention, Pharma
9. The Reinvention, Tech
10. The City Boole Made
Epilogue: Walking to the College
36 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
Cork sits at the southwestern corner of Europe, the last city before the Atlantic, a place that looks, on a map of the continent, like the end of the line. For most of its history it lived off what the previous books in this series describe: the butter and the beef, the harbour and the emigrant ships, the long struggle for the land and the nation. None of that suggests a place that would shape the modern world.
And yet the logic that runs inside every computer and every phone on the planet was worked out by a man who spent the last fifteen years of his life as a professor in Cork, and who died of a chill caught walking to his classroom. The first motor factory the Ford Motor Company ever built outside North America stood on the south bank of the River Lee, and for a time it was the largest Ford employer in the world outside the United States.
A provincial city helped build the modern world. This book starts with George Boole, the Cork professor whose logic runs inside every computer, then follows the thread out to Henry Ford, whose family came from Ballinascarthy and whose plant on the Marina put Cork on wheels. You will read about the factory city of Dunlop and Sunbeam, its collapse in the 1980s, and the reinvention that brought Pfizer and Apple. Ten chapters on how Cork made itself, lost itself, and made itself again. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
All ten books, including this one, come together in The Cork Stories Collection for €24.99, a saving of almost €35 on buying them one at a time.
What's inside:
Prologue: The Edge of the Map
1. The Shoemaker's Son
2. From Boole to the Machine
3. The Ford of Ballinascarthy
4. The Marina Plant
5. A City of Factories
6. The Harbour Works
7. The Collapse
8. The Reinvention, Pharma
9. The Reinvention, Tech
10. The City Boole Made
Epilogue: Walking to the College
36 pages, illustrated.
From the opening pages:
Cork sits at the southwestern corner of Europe, the last city before the Atlantic, a place that looks, on a map of the continent, like the end of the line. For most of its history it lived off what the previous books in this series describe: the butter and the beef, the harbour and the emigrant ships, the long struggle for the land and the nation. None of that suggests a place that would shape the modern world.
And yet the logic that runs inside every computer and every phone on the planet was worked out by a man who spent the last fifteen years of his life as a professor in Cork, and who died of a chill caught walking to his classroom. The first motor factory the Ford Motor Company ever built outside North America stood on the south bank of the River Lee, and for a time it was the largest Ford employer in the world outside the United States.
