#2732045 in eBooks 2006-11-17 2006-11-17File Name: B001T9O6G0"An excellent book about the origin of antebellum machinist networks and their profound effect on U.S. industrialization across a wide range of industries. In focusing on the machinists and not just the machines, it advances our understanding of technological change." (Ross D. Thomson, University oA 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 firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice. In the first book to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, Englis...
You easily download any file type for your device.Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) | . I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
