From machine shop to industrial laboratory : telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830-1920

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From machine shop to industrial laboratory : telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830-1920

Paul Israel

(John Hopkins studies in the history of technology, new ser., no. 14)

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index

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Discusses how the rise of engineering science and the advent of scientific management transformed early co-operative ventures into the industrial laboratories of the 20th century. The author focuses on the field of telegraphy as a case study of this shift in the pattern of American invention.

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