Author: Cyrus Hall MACCORMICKPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Award on Reaping Machines at the great Hamburg International Exhibition, 1863. Invention of the Reaper. Discussion of merits between the Editor of the North British Agriculturist, and others, and C. H. Mac Cormick
Author: Cyrus Hall MACCORMICKPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The American Reaper
Author: Gordon M. WinderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317045157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. Much previous historical research into industrial networks focuses on industrial districts within metropolitan centres, but by focusing on harvesting - a typically rural technology - this book is able to analyse the spread of technological knowledge through a series of local networks and across national boundaries. In doing so it argues that the industry developed through a relatively stable stage from the 1850s into the 1890s, during which time many firms shared knowledge within and outside the US through patent licensing, to spread the diffusion of the American style of machines to establishments located around the industrial world. This positive cooperation was further enhanced through sales networks that appear to be early expressions of managerial firms. The book also reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. It unleashed an unchecked competitive market economy with destructive tendencies throughout the transnational 'American reaper' networks; a previously stable and expanding production system. This is significant because the rise of corporate capital in this industry is usually explained as an outworking of national natural advantage, as an ingenious harnessing of science and technology to solve production problems, and as a rational solution to the problems associated with the worst forms of unregulated competition that emerged as independent firms developed from small-scale, artisanal production to large-scale manufacturers, on their own and within the separate and isolated US economy. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Networks of Power
Author: Thomas Parke HughesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801846144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Edward Wright ByrnPublisher:
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Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Who Really Made Your Car?
Author: Thomas H. KlierPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880993332
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive look at an industry that plays a growing role in motor vehicle production in the United States.
The Visible Hand
Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674417682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.
History of Macon County, Illinois, from Its Organization to 1876
Author: John W. SmithPublisher:
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Category : Macon County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Great Inventions
Author: Peppermint Kings
Author: Dan AllossoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300236824
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
An unexplored, fascinating history of nineteenth-century agrarian life, told through the engaging lens of three families central to the peppermint oil industry This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural people of their time. Challenging the standard paradigms, historian Dan Allosso focuses on the rural characters who lived by their own rules and did not acquiesce to contemporary religious doctrines, business mores, and political expediencies. The Ranneys, a secular family in a very religious time and place; the Hotchkisses, who ran banks and printed their own money while the Lincoln administration was eliminating state banking; and the Todd family, who incorporated successful business practices with populist socialism, all highlight the untold story of rural America's engagement with the capitalist marketplace. The families' atypical attitudes and activities offer unexpected perspectives on rural business and life.