Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America /

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"A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, David R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Colección:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
Temas:
Machinists > United States > History.
Metalworking industries > United States > History.
Machinistes (Mécanique) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Industries métallurgiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Machinists
Metalworking industries
Maschinist
Metallverarbeitende Industrie
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Machinists' traces
  • I: The formation of the networks, 1790-1820
  • Iron foundries become early hubs of machinist networks
  • A networked community built by cotton textile machinists
  • The Federal armories and private firearms firms operate in open networks
  • II: the elaboration of the networks, 1820-1860
  • Iron foundries rule the heavy capital equipment industry
  • Networked machinists build locomotives
  • Resilient cotton textile machinist networks
  • The cradles of the metalworking machinery industry
  • Machine tool networks
  • Machinists' networks forge the pivotal producer durables industry.

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