Transatlantic industrial revolution : The diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1970 - 1830s

The book examines the transfer of four specific technologies: cotton spinning, powerloom weaving, calico printing, and woollen manufacturing. These technologies all made successful transatlantic crossings in spite of the institutional and technical barriers to transfer that Jeremy describes, includi...

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Sonraí Bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhúdar: Jeremy, David J.
Formáid: Leabhar
Teanga:Undetermined
Foilsithe: Cambridge Massachusetts The MIT Press 1981
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Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Achoimre:The book examines the transfer of four specific technologies: cotton spinning, powerloom weaving, calico printing, and woollen manufacturing. These technologies all made successful transatlantic crossings in spite of the institutional and technical barriers to transfer that Jeremy describes, including industrial secretiveness, the English patent search system, the paucity of technical publications, the prohibitory laws, artisan resistance to technica change, variations in local technical traditions, and changes in the pace and direction of invention.