Book ID: CBB994328815

Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution (2014)

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"Ingenious Machinists" recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that city s early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism.

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Review Michael S. Raber (2013) Review of "Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution". IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 122-123). unapi

Review John Bowditch (2016) Review of "Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution". Technology and Culture (pp. 473-474). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nuvolari, Alessandro
Archer-Parré, Caroline
Godfrey, Donald G.
Valentino Catricalà
Sean Bottomley
Tartari, Valentina
Concepts
Inventors and invention
Industrial revolution
Technology
Biographies
Machines
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Modern
20th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
France
Birmingham (England)
England
Scotland
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