Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001
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Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The men and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:147666921X
ISBN13:9781476669212
Release Date:April 2017
Publisher:McFarland & Company
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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