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

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

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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.)
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
United States > Social policy
Rhode Island
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Table of 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
  • Part 1 Age of Invention
  • 1 A Burning Curiosity 9
  • 2 A Curiosity Shop 14
  • 3 "The Genius of Its Maker" 27
  • 4 "An Eye to Business" 34
  • 5 Prosperity 41
  • 6 Panic 51
  • 7 The Age of Steel 64
  • 8 Providence, Paris, Chicago 75
  • 9 Spoke Wheels, Turning 86
  • 10 Death and Succession 97
  • Part 2 Centralization
  • 11 "Clean the Damned Place Out!" 109
  • 12 When Peppermint Creams Meet Steel 121
  • 13 "If I Had Known This Was Coming" 136
  • 14 "Don't We Ever Play a Waltz?": The 1930s 148
  • 15 World War II: Defense Workers Wanted 158
  • 16 One War Ends, Another Begins 172
  • Part 3 A People's Capitalism
  • 17 Flying into the Jet Age 183
  • 18 Retooling 193
  • 19 An Industrial Eden 203
  • Part 4 Managerial Capitalism and the Global Corporation
  • 20 Fenced In 215
  • 21 The Longest Strike 228
  • 22 Locked Out 244

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