Ingenious Machinists

Ingenious Machinists
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781438454023
ISBN-13 : 1438454023
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Ingenious Machinists by : Anthony J. Connors

Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England. Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that city’s early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism. “David Wilkinson and Paul Moody have long deserved full biographies. By comparing the careers of two notable figures and including a wealth of material about the people around them, Connors gives us a much more detailed, varied, and realistic image of life in industrial America than we have seen before. This is social, technological, business, and economic history at its best, all tied together in a compelling dual biography. The book will fascinate general readers with an interest in history or biography, but it will also appeal strongly to specialists in many fields.” — Patrick M. Malone, author of Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America

Journal of the Society of Arts

Journal of the Society of Arts
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1032
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014698990
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Journal of the Society of Arts by : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)

Ingenious Machinists

Ingenious Machinists
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781438454030
ISBN-13 : 1438454031
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Ingenious Machinists by : Anthony J. Connors

Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that city's early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism.

Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association

Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101055247447
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association by : New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association

Includes transactions of annual and semi-annual meetings.

British Farmer's Magazine

British Farmer's Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 494
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:555020472
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis British Farmer's Magazine by :

The Farmer's Magazine

The Farmer's Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B2929561
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

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