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From know-how to nowhere: the development of American technology
Elting Elmore Morison
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Frontmatter
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PART I: The Rule of Thumb
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CHAPTER I. Some Introductory Remarks (page 3)
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CHAPTER 2. Building Things in Early America (page 16)
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CHAPTER 3. The Works of John B. Jervis (page 40)
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CHAPTER 4. John Fritz and the Three High Rail Mill (page 72)
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CHAPTER 5. The State of the Art in 1860 (page 87)
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PART II: Ideas Come to Power
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CHAPTER 6. Plumbing the Reservoirs of Knowledge (page 101)
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CHAPTER 7. Tying Practice to Theory: The Tungsten Filament (page 114)
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CHAPTER 8. The Parable of the Ships at Sea (page 147)
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CHAPTER 9. Some Notes on Visions (page 162)
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Bibliographical Notes (page 189)
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Index (page 191)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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BHR | 50.2 (Spring. 1976): 128-129 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3113598 |
JEL | 14.2 (Jun. 1976): 475-477 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2722473 |
AHR | 81.3 (Jun. 1976): 661-662 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1852599 |
TC | 17.4 (Oct. 1976): 746-748 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3103680 |
EHR | 29.1 (Feb. 1976): 190 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2594545 |
JAH | 62.3 (Dec. 1975): 713-714 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2936269 |
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Published: c1974
Publisher: Basic Books
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