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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):396-398; doi:10.1093/es/khn035
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David R. Meyer. Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xi + 311 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8471-3, $49.95 (cloth)

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How did entrepreneurs in antebellum American industry acquire the knowledge required to operate iron foundries and build steam engines, locomotives, machine tools, and even firearms? Did they simply hire experts from England to teach the small number of machinists in America new techniques—something difficult to do since the British government tried to prevent that knowledge from getting out? Or, did they rely on machinists who brought with them knowledge of new processes when they immigrated to America? And, when . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Craig S. Pascoe

Georgia College & State University


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