Brown & Sharpe and the measure of American industry : making the precision machine tools that enabled manufacturing, 1833-2001

Gerald M. Carbone with the Rhode Island Historical Society ; foreword by Steven Lubar

"Brown & Sharpe employees produced and marketed measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery, and helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe contains the story of the Industrial Revolution in America, covering more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike."

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Year of publication:	[2017]
Authors:	Carbone, Gerald M.
Other Persons:	Lubar, Steven D. (preface)
Institutions:	Rhode Island Historical Society (contributor)
Publisher:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Subject:	Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. <Providence, RI> \| Werkzeugmaschinenbau \| Machine tool industry \| Feinmechanische Industrie \| Precision instruments industry \| Messtechnik \| Measurement technology \| Unternehmensgeschichte \| Business history \| USA \| United States \| Geschichte
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	viii, 277 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-262) and index
ISBN:	1-4766-6921-X ; 978-1-4766-6921-2 ; 978-1-4766-2919-3
Classification:	Geschichte des Maschinenbaus, der Energie- und Fertigungstechnik ; Messtechnik ; Produzierendes Gewerbe
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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