Regulating railroad innovation : business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920 /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Usselman, Steven W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Railroads > United States > History.
Railroads > Technological innovations.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > History.
Railroads
Railroads > Technological innovations
Eisenbahntechnik
Technische Innovation
Spoorwegen.
Technische vernieuwing.
Beheersing.
Regulering.
Overheidsbeleid.
Chemins de fer > États-Unis > Histoire.
Chemins de fer > Innovations.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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