Article ID: CBB000074128

Innovation and amnesia: Engineering rationality and the fate of interchangeable parts manufacturing in Europe (1997)

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Description Focuses on the birth of interchangeable parts manufacturing--and its demise--in the armory town of Saint-Etienne at the end of the 18th century.


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Authors & Contributors
Roca Rosell, Antoni
Verdier, Nicolas
Thompson, Paul Murray
Jared Holley
Voskuhl, Adelheid
Puig Pla, Carles
Journals
History of Technology
Science and Education
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Social Studies of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Publishers
Université Paris Diderot
University of Delaware
Publications de la Sorbonne
printed by the author
H. Champion
University of Chicago
Concepts
Mechanical engineering
Biographies
Industrial revolution
Engineering
Biology
Technology
People
Murray, Matthew
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Watt, James
Trembley, Abraham
Santponç i Roca, Francesc
Santponç, Francesc
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
17th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Europe
Barcelona (Spain)
Spain
British Isles
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