Most wonderful machine : mechanization and social change in Berkshire paper making, 1801-1885
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Most wonderful machine : mechanization and social change in Berkshire paper making, 1801-1885
Princeton University Press, c1987
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Bibliography: p. [413]-425
Includes index
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On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of a Melville short story views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe, calling it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting a similar nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, examined here by Judith McGaw.
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