Reviews
Highly recommended.
A rich and detailed study of the early development of the American system of technological innovation... It is an important work and likely to become required reading for generations of scholars of the innovative process.
Repeatedly fascinating... Thomson is to be commended.
One of the best characterizations of how technological change occurs that I have ever read.
Book Details
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Structure and Change
Part I: Multiple Paths of Innovation
2. Paths of Initial Mechanization, 1790–1835
3. Ongoing Mechanization, 1836–1865
4. Contours of
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Structure and Change
Part I: Multiple Paths of Innovation
2. Paths of Initial Mechanization, 1790–1835
3. Ongoing Mechanization, 1836–1865
4. Contours of Innovation
Part II: Technological Centers
5. Machinists as a Technological Center
6. Science, Mechanicians, and Invention
7. The Patent System and the Inventive Community
Part III: Interlinking Innovations
8. The Social Basis of Innovation
9. Technological Leadership
10. Fruition
11. The First Innovation System
Appendix: Selected Primary Sources and Data Sets
Notes
Works Cited
Index