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Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry - Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001

English · Paperback / Softback

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Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry.
The men and women of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They truly helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Steven Lubar

Preface

Part One-Age of Invention

¿1.¿A Burning Curiosity

¿2.¿A Curiosity Shop

¿3.¿"The Genius of Its Maker"

¿4.¿"An Eye to Business"

¿5.¿Prosperity

¿6.¿Panic

¿7.¿The Age of Steel

¿8.¿Providence, Paris, Chicago

¿9.¿Spoke Wheels, Turning

10.¿Death and Succession

Part Two-Centralization

11.¿"Clean the Damned Place Out!"

12.¿When Peppermint Creams Meet Steel

13.¿"If I Had Known This Was Coming"

14.¿"Don't We Ever Play a Waltz?": The 1930s

15.¿World War II: Defense Workers Wanted

16.¿One War Ends, Another Begins

Part Three-A People's Capitalism

17.¿Flying into the Jet Age

18.¿Retooling

19.¿An Industrial Eden

Part Four-Managerial Capitalism and the Global Corporation

20.¿Fenced In

21.¿The Longest Strike

22.¿Locked Out

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author










Gerald M. Carbone completed a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, and earned a master's degree in public humanities at Brown University. This is his third book. He lives in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Summary

The history of Brown & Sharpe turns out to be not only an important technological and economic story, but also a fascinating human story. Gerald Carbone's history of Brown & Sharpe tells the story of the company, bringing people to life, putting them into the context of Rhode Island's and the nation's history, and the history of technology and the political economy of the United States.

Product details

Authors Gerald M. Carbone, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society
Publisher McFarland
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2017
 
EAN 9781476669212
ISBN 978-1-4766-6921-2
No. of pages 286
Dimensions 178 mm x 254 mm x 16 mm
Weight 543 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches

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