The Franklin Journal And American Mechanics Magazine

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Release : 1876
File : 494 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:555015040


Journal Of The Franklin Institute

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Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59.

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Genre : Meteorology
Author : Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Release : 1828
File : 440 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112107878958


Subject Catalogue Of The Library Of The College Of New Jersey At Princeton

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Release : 1884
File : 914 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B4523841


Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth

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A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, “Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!” With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation’s coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia’s leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country’s leading producer. Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia’s failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature’s overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania’s more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development.

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Genre : History
Author : Sean Patrick Adams
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Release : 2009-12-01
File : 449 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781421400518


A Catalogue Of The Library Of The Middlesex Mechanic Association At Lowell Mass

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Genre : Library catalogs
Author : Middlesex Mechanic Association (Lowell, Mass.)
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Release : 1840
File : 186 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433057516985


The Grammar Of The Machine

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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns of instruction emerged? Edward Stevens, Jr., describes the important technological changes that took place in antebellum America and the challenges they posed for education. Investigating the instruction, curricula, and textbooks used in the common schools, in the mechanics' institutes, and, specifically, at the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School in upstate New York, he demonstrates how advocates of technical literacy attempted to teach new skills. Stevens shows that the tensions between the liberal and the vocational, between a culture of print and a nonverbal culture of experience, persisted in technical education through the first half of the nineteenth century but were resolved temporarily by a common moral vision.

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Genre : Education
Author : Edward Stevens
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 1995-01-01
File : 238 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0300061064


First City

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With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia. The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint. In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians—from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people—have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next.

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Genre : History
Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release : 2013-08-20
File : 395 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780812202885


Journal Of The Franklin Institute

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Genre : Electronic journals
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Release : 1828
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105001263529


National Library Of Medicine Current Catalog

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

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Genre : Medicine
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Release : 1974
File : 1242 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015007732251


Catalogue Of The Library Of The Great Seal Patent Office

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Author : Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Release : 1858
File : 428 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89089015929