Industrial Revolutions. Volume 9. The metal fabrication and engineering industries
Details:
- Author(s) Pollard, Sidney (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 490pp
- Publisher Blackwell for Economic History Society
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Collected academic articles and chapters which have come to be regarded as 'classic' contributions to the subject of the development of metal fabrication and mechanical engineering. Most, but not all, deal with the British experience. 25 items plus an introductory essay by the editor. Organised in seven sections, viz: 1] 'Tools and miscellaneous simple metal goods' [7 items]; 2] 'Arms manufacture' [1 item]; 3] 'Clocks and watches' [2 items]; 4] 'Engineering before Watt' [3 items]; 5] 'Engineering in Watt's time and after' [5 items]; 6] 'The transfer of technology' [4 items]; 7] 'The American system of manufacture' [3 items]. Sponsored by Economic History Society