Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: machinists in the early republic
  • Industrial glimmerings : Massachusetts before 1790
  • Revolutionary technology : Rhode Island, 1775-1790
  • The progress of a textile machinist : Paul Moody, 1794-1814
  • Oziel's son : David Wilkinson, 1790-1815
  • Company man : Paul Moody at Waltham, 1813-1823
  • Toward Wilkinsonville : David Wilkinson, 1815-1828
  • Respectable company man about town : Paul Moody at Lowell, 1823-1831
  • "We all broke down" : David Wilkinson, 1829-1852
  • Epilogue: ingenious machinists
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Essay on sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.