Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790–1865 by Ross Thomson

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790–1865

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Ross Thomson

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Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a den...

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