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Networked Machinists : High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (326 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801889226
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Networked MachinistsDDC classification:
  • 331.7/68176097309034
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.M22 U65 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Machinists' Traces -- PART I: THE FORMATION OF THE NETWORKS, 1790-1820 -- 1 Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks -- 2 A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists -- 3 The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks -- PART II: THE ELABORATION OF THE NETWORKS, 1820-1860 -- 4 Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry -- 5 Networked Machinists Build Locomotives -- 6 Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks -- 7 The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry -- 8 Machine Tool Networks -- 9 Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Summary: economy.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Machinists' Traces -- PART I: THE FORMATION OF THE NETWORKS, 1790-1820 -- 1 Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks -- 2 A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists -- 3 The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks -- PART II: THE ELABORATION OF THE NETWORKS, 1820-1860 -- 4 Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry -- 5 Networked Machinists Build Locomotives -- 6 Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks -- 7 The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry -- 8 Machine Tool Networks -- 9 Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

economy.

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