Author Jeremy, David J.

Title Artisans, entrepreneurs, and machines : essays on the early Anglo-American textile industries, 1770-1840s / David J. Jeremy.

Imprint Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, c1998.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  HD9855 .J47 1998  AVAILABLE
Description 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Collected studies ; CS608.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Damming the flood: British government efforts to check the outflow of technicians and machinery, 1780-1843 -- British and American yarn count systems: an historical analysis -- British and American entreprepreneurial values in the early nineteenth century: a parting of ways? -- British textile technology transmission to the United States: the Philadelphia region experience, 1770-1820 -- Immigrant textile machine makers along with Brandywine 1810-1820 -- Transatlantic industrial espionage in the early nineteenth century: barriers and penetrations -- Invention in American textile technology during the early nineteenth century, 1790-1830 -- Innovation in American textile technology during the early nineteenth century -- Technological diffusion: the case of the differential gear -- Cotton mills in developing regions, 1820-1840: Massachusetts and some comparison with Lancashire.
Subject(s) Textile industry -- Technological innovations -- History.
Textile industry -- Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- History.
Technology transfer -- History.
Technology transfer -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial revolution.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.