'Industrialisation and technological change' in R Floud & P Johnson (eds), Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain [First edition, 2004], Volume 1, Industrialisation, 1700-1860
Details:
- Author(s) Bruland, Kristine
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2004
- Pages pp117-46
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Overview. Has sections: 'Competing views of innovation and industrialisation'; 'Sectoral patterns of technological advance - the patenting evidence'; 'Sectoral patterns of change - technological histories - agriculture, food processing and glass manufacture [pp133-5]'; 'The 'major innovations' - textiles, steam power'; 'Conclusion - interpreting the pattern of technological change'