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Regulating railroad innovation : business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920 /
Efforts to create and mould new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. In Regulating Railroad Innovation, historian Steven Usselman brings this neglected aspect of American history to light. For nearly a century, rail...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Assembling the machine, 1840-1876
- Engines of expansion and extraction: the politics of development
- Acquiring technology: insider innovation
- Patent problems: inventors and the market for technology
- pt. 2. Running the machine, 1876-1904
- Patent remedies: politics, jurisprudence, and procedure
- Mastering technology, channeling change
- Standardizing steel rails: engineered innovation
- Engineering enshrined
- pt. 3. Friction in the machine, 1904-1920
- Reluctant innovators: the annoying allure of automatic train control
- Limits of engineering: rate regulation and the course of innovation
- Epilogue: the enduring challenge of innovation.