Reviews
This study contains a wealth of information and surprises.
An excellent, up-to-date, synthetic volume with strong themes and evidence.
An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship.
This book will be an important volume for specialists.
Meyer's book should prove invaluable to scholars of early American industrialization, and particularly to historians of technology.
A first-rate scholarly synthesis that also demonstrates considerable new research.
Elegantly spanning the fields of geography, sociology, business history, and the history of technology, this book should readily appeal.
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.
Book Details
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Machinists' Traces
Part I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-1820
1. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks
2. A
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Machinists' Traces
Part I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-1820
1. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks
2. A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists
3. The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks
Part II: The Elaboration of the Networks, 1820-1860
4. Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry
5. Networked Machinists Build Locomotives
6. Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks
7. The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry
8. Machine Tool Networks
9. Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index