English and American tool builders
English and American tool builders

Author: Joseph Wickham Roe

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2024-07-29

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13:

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English and American Tool Builders by Joseph Wickham Roe is a comprehensive historical account that delves into the lives and contributions of notable tool makers from England and America. The book offers insight into the development of tools and machinery, highlighting the innovations and advancements that shaped various industries. Overview: The book explores the significant impact of tool builders on technological progress and industrialization in both England and America. It covers the achievements of prominent individuals who played a key role in advancing tool-making techniques and machinery. Key Elements: Historical Context: Roe provides a detailed historical background, tracing the evolution of tool-making from early developments to more modern advancements. Biographical Sketches: The book features biographical sketches of influential tool builders, offering readers a glimpse into their lives, work, and contributions to the field. Technical Insights: Roe includes technical details and descriptions of various tools and machinery, providing a deep understanding of the tools’ functions and innovations. Industrial Impact: The book discusses the broader impact of these tool builders on industrial practices and the manufacturing process, illustrating how their work influenced various sectors. Illustrations and Diagrams: Enhanced by illustrations and diagrams, English and American Tool Builders offers visual context to the text, helping readers better understand the tools and techniques described. English and American Tool Builders is a valuable resource for historians, engineers, and anyone interested in the history of technology and industrial development. Joseph Wickham Roe’s detailed research and engaging narrative offer a thorough examination of the crucial role tool builders played in shaping modern industry.

From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932

Author: David Hounshell

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780801831584

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David A. Houndshell's widely acclaimed history explores the American "genius for mass production" and races its origins in the nineteenth-century "American system" of manufacture. Previous writers on the American system have argued that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by armsmakers before the Civil War. Drawing upon the extensive business and manufacturing records if leading American firms, Hounshell demonstrates that the diffusion of arms production technology was neither as fast now as smooth as had been assumed. Exploring the manufacture of sewing machines and furniture, bicycles and reapers, he shows that both the expression "mass production" and the technology that lay behind it were developments of the twentieth century, attributable in large part to the Ford Motor Company. Hounshell examines the importance of individuals in the diffusion and development of production technology and the central place of marketing strategy in the success of selected American manufacturers. Whereaas Ford was the seedbed of the assembly line revolution, it was General motors that initiated a new era with its introduction of the annual model change. With the new marketing strategy, the technology of "the changeover" became of paramount importance. Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford learned this lesson and recounts how the successful mass production of automobiles led to the establishment of an "ethos of mass production," to an era in which propoments of "Fordism" argued that mass production would solve all of America's social problems.

Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Lock, Stock, and Barrel

Author: Clayton E. Cramer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13:

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This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.

A History of Mechanical Inventions
A History of Mechanical Inventions

Author: Abbott Payson Usher

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0486143597

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Updated classic explores importance of technological innovation in cultural and economic history of the West. Water wheels, clocks, printing, machine tools, more. "Without peer." — American Scientist.

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age

Author: Ross Thomson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2009-05-08

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0801896622

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The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth. Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a dense web of knowledge-diffusing institutions—new occupations and industries, the patent office, machine shops, mechanics’ associations, scientific societies, public colleges, and the civil engineering profession. Together they composed an integrated innovation system that generated, disseminated, and employed new technical knowledge across ever-widening ranges of the economy. To trace technological change in fourteen major industries and the economy as a whole, Thomson analyzes 14,000 patents, the records of two dozen machinery firms, census data for 1,800 companies, and hundreds of business directories. This exhaustive research leads to his interesting interpretation of technological diffusion and development. Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country’s economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.