Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

by David R. Meyer

Book Overview

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.

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• 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"