Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America

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Networked machinists : high-technology industries in Antebellum America

David R. Meyer

（John Hopkins studies in the history of technology）

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 to study this phenomenon since the 1916 classic, English and American Tool Builders, David R. Meyer examines the development of skilled-labor exchange systems, showing how individual metalworking sectors grew and moved outward. He argues that the networked behavior of machinists within and across industries helps explain the rapid transformation of metalworking industries during the antebellum period, building a foundation for the sophisticated, mass production/consumer industries that figured so prominently in the later U.S. economy.

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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Machinists' Traces Part I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-1820 1. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks 2. A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists 3. The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks Part II: The Elaboration of the Networks, 1820-1860 4. Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry 5. Networked Machinists Build Locomotives 6. Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks 7. The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry 8. Machine Tool Networks 9. Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index

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