Shayt, David H. (Author)
The industrial fabrication of elephant ivory consumer goods is rapidly entering the world of lost arts. Both the markets for ivory wares and the specialized skills and tooling used to produce them are vanishing beneath a new worldwide concern for the survival of elephants. Among the procedures unique to ivory processing, the sun-bleaching of piano keys occurred at the midpoint of a slow, multi-stage transfiguration of elephant tusks into the thin wafers of key veneers. One ivory-specific structure—a piano key bleach house—survives in North America to recall the inner workings of this process, and the outer global transformation in attitudes toward the industrial uses of natural versus synthetic materials.
...More
Article
Bathsheba Demuth;
(2019)
The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870–1950
(/isis/citation/CBB042440470/)
Article
Charles A. Parrott;
(2014)
The Weave Sheds of New Bedford and their Place in American Industrial Architecture
(/isis/citation/CBB571734857/)
Article
Robert B. Gordon;
Michael S. Raber;
(1984)
An Early American Integrated Steelworks
(/isis/citation/CBB038241502/)
Article
Sara E. Wermiel;
(2001)
America's 19th-Century British-Style Fireproof Factories
(/isis/citation/CBB998530351/)
Article
Dennis E. Howe;
(2007)
An Archaeological Survey of the Whiteport Cement Works
(/isis/citation/CBB105487275/)
Article
Matthew W. Roth;
(2000)
IA and the 20th Century City: Who Will Love the Alameda Corridor?
(/isis/citation/CBB752044474/)
Article
David B. Landon;
Timothy A. Tumberg;
(1996)
Archeological Perspectives on the Diffusion of Technology: An Example from the Ohio Trap Rock Mine Site
(/isis/citation/CBB831006428/)
Article
Richard E. Greenwood;
(1999)
Condos, Photos, and Singing Bridges: IA in the State Historic Preservation Offices
(/isis/citation/CBB677082382/)
Article
Amy Slaton;
(1996)
Aesthetics of a Modern Industry: Buildings of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's Scranton Yards
(/isis/citation/CBB628277884/)
Article
Charles K. Hyde;
(1996)
Assembly-Line Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Evolution of the U.S. Auto Factory, 1905-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB618737316/)
Article
William Sisson;
(1992)
A Revolution in Steel: Mass Production in Pennsylvania, 1867-1901
(/isis/citation/CBB136236915/)
Article
C. C. Cooper;
R. B. Gordon;
H. V. Merrick;
(1982)
Archeological Evidence of Metallurgical Innovation at the Eli Whitney Armory
(/isis/citation/CBB187006210/)
Article
Helen Langa;
(2002)
Deep Tunnels and Burning Flues: The Unexpected Political Drama in 1930s Industrial Production Prints
(/isis/citation/CBB951938638/)
Book
Bernhard Gissibl;
(2016)
The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
(/isis/citation/CBB259547609/)
Article
Susan K. Appel;
(1990)
Artificial Refrigeration and the Architecture of 19th-century American Breweries
(/isis/citation/CBB820906037/)
Article
Mary E. Pyne;
(1989)
New England's Gasholder Houses
(/isis/citation/CBB371858245/)
Article
Gabriele Cruciani;
(2001)
The Montevecchio Mining District: Industrial Archeology in SW Sardinia, Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB147115970/)
Article
T. Allan Comp;
(1975)
The Tooele Copper and Lead Smelter
(/isis/citation/CBB759489580/)
Article
Helena E. Wright;
(1983)
Insurance Mapping and Industrial Archeology
(/isis/citation/CBB140343719/)
Article
Robert A. Howard;
(1975)
Black Powder Manufacture
(/isis/citation/CBB203794322/)
Be the first to comment!