Brown & Sharpe and the measure of American industry : Making the precision machine tools that enabled manufacturing, 1833-2001 /

"Brown & Sharpe employees produced and marketed measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery, and helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe contains the story of the Industrial Revolution in America, covering more than 150 year...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carbone, Gerald M. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Rhode Island Historical Society
Otros Autores: Lubar, Steven (author of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, NC : McFarland and Company, 2017.
Temas:
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company.
Machine-tool industry > Rhode Island.
Machines-outils > Industrie > Rhode Island.
GAMES / Gambling / Sports
SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays
SPORTS & RECREATION / History
SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference
TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
Machine-tool industry
Rhode Island
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The age of steel
  • Providence, Paris, Chicago
  • Spoke wheels, turning
  • Death and succession
  • Centralization
  • "Clean the damned place out!"
  • When peppermint creams meet steel
  • "If i had known this was coming"
  • "Don't we ever play a waltz" : the 1930s
  • World War II: defense workers wanted
  • War ends, another begins
  • A people's capitalism
  • Flying into the jet age
  • Retooling
  • An industrial eden
  • Managerial capitalism and the gobal corporation
  • Fenced in
  • The longest strike
  • Locked out.

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