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Brown & Sharpe and the measure of American industry : making the precision machine tools that enabled manufacturing, 1833/2001 / Gerald M. Carbone ; with the Rhode Island Historical Society ; foreword by Steven Lubar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carbone, Gerald M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.)--History.
- Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.).
- Machinery industry--United States--History.
- Machinery industry.
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- Technological innovations--United States--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Industrial revolution--United States--History.
- Industrial revolution.
- United States--Social policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (77 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Brown and Sharpe and the measure of American industry
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Brown & Sharpe employees produced and marketed measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery, and helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe contains the story of the Industrial Revolution in America, covering more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / by Steven Lubar
- Preface
- Age of invention
- A burning curiosity
- A curiosity shop
- "The genius of its maker"
- "An eye to business"
- Prosperity
- Panic
- The age of steel
- Providence, Paris, Chicago
- Spoke wheels, turning
- Death and succession
- Centralization
- "Clean the damned place out!"
- When peppermint creams meet steel
- "If i had known this was coming"
- "Don't we ever play a waltz" : the 1930s
- World War II: defense workers wanted
- War ends, another begins
- A people's capitalism
- Flying into the jet age
- Retooling
- An industrial eden
- Managerial capitalism and the gobal corporation
- Fenced in
- The longest strike
- Locked out
- Chapter notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2919-6
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