Mansions of Magnates

By Lyn Lincourt

Horace Bigelow built his mansion in 1878. He was a farm boy handmaking shoes for the family who made gadgets to do so faster. By age twenty, he made shoes in a factory. In Austria's 1873 Vienna Exposition, he won the Medal of Progress for a pair made in five minutes. The growth of his business continued into the first third of the 1900s to a severe depression in 1929, which crippled America until the Second World War restored industry. Current elders are the Depression generation. We returned from the war, giving our children everything but the ability to cope in the working world. Unprepared, many were angry and rebellious in the 1950s to the 1960s, rejecting all standards. Chaos reigned, reason was abolished, behaviors were overturned, and madness controlled when the Beatles became their god. This coincided with the birth of the computer and, consequently, the second world changing its focus-from industry promotion to the Internet that dispersed jobs worldwide. There are two sides to every coin, as Mansions of Magnates indicates. Those who worked in the industry and on computers see a totally different world. I'm in, but not of, the computer world. Perhaps that gives me perspective, perhaps not. We learn from experience, ours and others. We gain by sharing. That's what Mansions of Magnates is about. Let us share what we have learned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633674797
• ISBN13: 9781633674790
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"