Steven W. Usselman

Regulating Railroad Innovation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of America's efforts to regulate expanding railroad technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 825g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806367
• ISBN-10: 0521806364
• Artikelnr.: 29339049

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Assembling the Machine, 1840
76: 1. Engines of expansion and extraction: the politics of development; 2. Acquiring technology: insider innovation; 3. Patent problems: inventors and the market for technology; Part II. Running the Machine, 1876
1904: 4. Patent remedies: politics, jurisprudence, and procedure; 5. Mastering technology, channeling change; 6. Standardizing steel rails: engineered innovation; 7. Engineering enshrined; Part III. Friction in the Machine, 1904
20: 8. Reluctant innovators: the annoying allure of automatic train control; 9. The limits of engineering: rate regulation and the course of innovation; Epilogue: the enduring challenge of innovation.