Anthony J. Connors

Ingenious Machinists (eBook, ePUB)

Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that city's early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438454030
• Artikelnr.: 60535190

Autorenporträt

Anthony J. Connors is an independent historian and the editor of the first volume of Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia. He lives in Westport, Massachusetts.