Author: United States. Military Commission to Europe
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Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Report of Major Alfred Mordecai
Author: United States. Military Commission to Europe
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Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856
Author: United States. Military Commission to Europe
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Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A report about artillery used in Europe, plus a description of small arms in use in European armies.
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Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A report about artillery used in Europe, plus a description of small arms in use in European armies.
Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library
Author: Ohio State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
Author: New York Chamber of Commerce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Author: American Jewish Historical Society
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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A Catalogue of the Library of Bowdoin College; to which is Added, an Index of Subjects. [Edited by W. P. Tucker.]
Author: Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology
Author: Merritt Roe Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major problems of technical innovation and social adaptation in antebellum America. Merritt Roe Smith describes how positions of authority at the armory were tied to a larger network of political and economic influence in the community; how these relationships, in turn, affected managerial behavior; and how local social conditions reinforced the reactions of decision makers. He also demonstrates how craft traditions and variant attitudes toward work vis-à-vis New England created an atmosphere in which the machine was held suspect and inventive activity was hampered. Of central importance is the author's analysis of the drastic differences between Harpers Ferry and its counterpart, the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, which played a pivotal role in the emergence of the new technology. The flow of technical information between the two armories, he shows, moved in one direction only— north to south. "In the end," Smith concludes, "the stamina of local culture is paramount in explaining why the Harpers Ferry armory never really flourished as a center of technological innovation." Pointing up the complexities of industrial change, this account of the Harpers Ferry experience challenges the commonly held view that Americans have always been eagerly receptive to new technological advances.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major problems of technical innovation and social adaptation in antebellum America. Merritt Roe Smith describes how positions of authority at the armory were tied to a larger network of political and economic influence in the community; how these relationships, in turn, affected managerial behavior; and how local social conditions reinforced the reactions of decision makers. He also demonstrates how craft traditions and variant attitudes toward work vis-à-vis New England created an atmosphere in which the machine was held suspect and inventive activity was hampered. Of central importance is the author's analysis of the drastic differences between Harpers Ferry and its counterpart, the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, which played a pivotal role in the emergence of the new technology. The flow of technical information between the two armories, he shows, moved in one direction only— north to south. "In the end," Smith concludes, "the stamina of local culture is paramount in explaining why the Harpers Ferry armory never really flourished as a center of technological innovation." Pointing up the complexities of industrial change, this account of the Harpers Ferry experience challenges the commonly held view that Americans have always been eagerly receptive to new technological advances.
A catalogue of the library of Bowdoin college; to which is added, an index of subjects
Author: Bowdoin college
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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