Most Wonderful Machine : Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 /
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fa...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 9780691655390_FChigh; Contents; Part I: Before the Machine; Traditional Paper Making; The Traditions of Work; Part II: The Machine; Part III: After the Machine