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Author:
Connors, Anthony J., author.
Title:
Ingenious machinists : two inventive lives from the American industrial revolution / Anthony J. Connors.
Publisher:
State University of New York Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 282 pages : illustrations (1 color), maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Machinists--United States--Biography.
Inventors--United States--Biography.
Industrial revolution--United States.
Moody, Paul,--1779-1831.
Wilkinson, David,--1771-1852.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Machinists in the early republic -- Industrial glimmerings : Massachusetts before 1790 -- Revolutionary technology : Rhode Island, 1775-1790 -- The progress of a textile machinist : Paul Moody, 1794-1814 -- Oziel's son : David Wilkinson, 1790-1815 -- Company man : Paul Moody at Waltham, 1813-1823 -- Toward Wilkinsonville : David Wilkinson, 1815-1828 -- Respectable company man about town : Paul Moody at Lowell, 1823-1831 -- "We all broke down" : David Wilkinson, 1829-1852 -- Epilogue: ingenious machinists.
Series:
Excelsior editions
ISBN:
1438454023
9781438454023
1438454015
9781438454016
OCLC:
(OCoLC)871186897
LCCN:
2014002126
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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