Brown & Sharpe and the measure of American industry : making the precision machine tools that enabled manufacturing, 1833-2001 /

Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his...

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Main Authors:	Carbone, Gerald M (Author), Carbone, Gerald M. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Rhode Island Historical Society
Other Authors:	Lubar, Steven D. (writer of foreword)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Subjects:	Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.) > History Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.) Brown & Sharpe J.R. Brown & Sharpe (Providence, R.I.) > ^A3525613 Industrial revolution > United States > History Labor > United States > History Machine-tool industry > Rhode Island Machinery industry > United States > History Manufacturing industries > Rhode Island > History Technological innovations > United States > History History Industrial revolution Labor Machine-tool industry Machinery industry Manufacturing industries Social policy Technological innovations Rhode Island > History > ^A1056245 Rhode Island > History United States > Social policy Rhode Island United States
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