The American System of Manufactures. The Report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States, 1855, and the special reports of George Wallis and Joseph Whitworth, 1854; with an introduction by Nathan Rosenberg for the University Press
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1969
- Pages 440pp
- Publisher University of Edinburgh Press
- Place Published Edinburgh
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- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
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- City London
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Comprises three reports presented to the House of Commons, 1854-5, viz: 'Report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States of America. Presented ... 10th July 1855' [pp87-197]; 'New York Industrial Exhibition. Special report of Mr George Wallis. Presented ... February 6 1854' [pp199-325]; 'New York Industrial Exhibition. Special report of Mr Joseph Whitworth. Presented ... February 6 1854' [pp327-89]. Supported by a substantial index. The scholarly introduction by Rosenberg [pp1-86] highlights the content and importance of the reports; the comparative perspective they provide into engineering practice in Britain and USA; the slow take up of the System and of interchangeability in Britain; etc. Includes much about the immediate uptake of USA machinery by the Enfield Small Arms Factory