| Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution Contributor(s): Connors, Anthony J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438454023 ISBN-13: 9781438454023 Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - History | United States - 19th Century - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014002126 |
| Series: Excelsior Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |