Gerald M. Carbone, Rhode Island Historical Society

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry

Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The men and women of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They truly helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781476669212
• ISBN-10: 147666921X
• Artikelnr.: 47361218

Autorenporträt

Gerald M. Carbone completed a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, and earned a master's degree in public humanities at Brown University. This is his third book. He lives in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Steven Lubar Preface Part One-Age of Invention
1.
A Burning Curiosity
2.
A Curiosity Shop
3.
"The Genius of Its Maker"
4.
"An Eye to Business"
5.
Prosperity
6.
Panic
7.
The Age of Steel
8.
Providence, Paris, Chicago
9.
Spoke Wheels, Turning 10.
Death and Succession Part Two-Centralization 11.
"Clean the Damned Place Out!" 12.
When Peppermint Creams Meet Steel 13.
"If I Had Known This Was Coming" 14.
"Don't We Ever Play a Waltz?": The 1930s 15.
World War II: Defense Workers Wanted 16.
One War Ends, Another Begins Part Three-A People's Capitalism 17.
Flying into the Jet Age 18.
Retooling 19.
An Industrial Eden Part Four-Managerial Capitalism and the Global Corporation 20.
Fenced In 21.
The Longest Strike 22.
Locked Out Chapter Notes Bibliography Index