A history of metals in colonial America / by James A. Mulholland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulholland, James A., 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metallurgy--United States--History.

Metals--History.

Metals.

History.

Metallurgy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [1981]

Summary:

In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.

Notes:

Includes bibliogrphical references and index.

ISBN:

081730052X

OCLC:

6420799