Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)
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A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology industries. In iron foundries and steam-engine works, locomotive works, machine and tool shops, textile-machinery firms, and firearms manufacturers, these resourceful workers pioneered the practice of dispersing technological expertise through communities of practice. In the first book...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801884713
ISBN13:9780801884719
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.8"
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