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

"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 year...

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Main Author: Carbone, Gerald M. (Author)
Corporate Author: Rhode Island Historical Society
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, NC : McFarland and Company, 2017.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781476629193
1476629196

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