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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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-262) and index

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Brown & Sharpe and the measure of American industry

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

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 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike"--, Provided by publisher

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Steven Lubar -- Preface -- Age of invention -- A burning curiosity -- A curiosity shop -- "The genius of its maker" -- "An eye to business" -- Prosperity -- Panic -- The age of steel -- Providence, Paris, Chicago -- Spoke wheels, turning -- Death and succession -- Centralization -- "Clean the damned place out!" -- When peppermint creams meet steel -- "If i had known this was coming" -- "Don't we ever play a waltz" : the 1930s -- World War II: defense workers wanted -- War ends, another begins -- A people's capitalism -- Flying into the jet age -- Retooling -- An industrial eden -- Managerial capitalism and the gobal corporation -- Fenced in -- The longest strike -- Locked out -- Chapter notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001