Early Industrial Revolution Research Articles

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis

The history of technology, Anthony F C Wallace contends, must be imagined and investigated within a broader history of society. In these insightful essays, Wallace offers a multigenerational examination of the underlying social forces and everyday settings impelling and enabling early industrial innovation. The gradual development of the steam engine is illuminated through an examination of the far-reaching but unintentional role played by the British royal ordnance and naval establishments. Wallace shows how the efforts of three generations of the Darby family improved iron production. Finally, the sources of failure in industrial innovation are illustrated through the example of deep-shaft coal mining in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, which went bankrupt because of inadequately financed operators who ignored standard safety procedures. Wallace provides a new introduction to this book. Anthony F C Wallace is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of such books as Revitalization and Mazeways: Essays on Culture Change, volume 1 and Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution, winner of the Bancroft Prize.

Loyal and Lonely Inventors

THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF INNOVATION Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis by Anthony F.C. Wallace

: The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis . Anthony F. C. Wallace.

: The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis . Anthony F. C. Wallace.

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Anthony F.C. Wallace. The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1982. Pp. 175. $15.00.

Anthony F.C. Wallace. The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1982. Pp. 175. $15.00. - Volume 15 Issue 1

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts

The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis

The Social Context of Innovation: Bureaucrats, Families, and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's New Atlantis

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufactures in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 267. $34.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Mechanics and Manufactures in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 267. 9.95 paper. - Volume 42 Issue 2

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp xvii + 267. $34.00 cloth; $9.95, paper.

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Paul G. Faler, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp xvii + 267. $34.00 cloth; $9.95, paper.

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

The Money Market in the Early Industrial Revolution: The Evidence from West Riding Attorneys c. 1750–1800

(1981). The Money Market in the Early Industrial Revolution: The Evidence from West Riding Attorneys c. 1750–1800. Business History: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 127-146.

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution

: Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution . Anthony F. C. Wallace.

: Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution . Anthony F. C. Wallace.

The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century.

The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century.

The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century.

The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articleEngineering in the Ancint Worfd. By J. G. Landels.The Most Mysterious Manusmp: The Voynich “Roger Bacon” Cipher Manucnipt. Edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh.War and Society in Europe, 1618‐1648. By J.V. Polisensky and Frederick Snider.Scottish Society in the Ftftcenth Century. Edited by Jennifer M. Brown.Neither Fire Nor Steel: Sir Christopher Hatton. By Alice Gilmore Vines.Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century. By A. D. Harvey.Social Policy, 1830‐1924: Individuulism, Colhctivism, and the Origins ofthe Weljare Skate.The Fabians. By Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie.Inride Asquithi Cabinet. Edited by Edward David.Britain and the Oripns of the First World War. By Zara Steiner.The Agrarian History of Enghnd and Wah, vol. 8, 1914‐1939. By Edith H. Whetham.A Lijic of Contra An Autobiography. By Diana Mitford Mosley.Political Change in France uncier Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624‐1661. By Richard Bonney.The Response ofthe Royal Amy to the Frmh Revolution: The Role and Development of the Line Amy, 1787‐1793. By Samuel F. Scott.Chateaubriund, vol. 1, The Longcd‐for Tempests, 1768‐93. By George D. Painter.The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Lcft in Revolutionary France, 1848‐1851. By John M. Merriman.Florence and the Medici: The Patern of Control. By J.R. Hale.Early Economic Thought in Spin, I 177‐1 740. By Marjorie Grice‐Hutchinson.From Impotence to Authority: The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencies. By Mark A. Burkholder and D. S. Chandler.Socicty and Politics in Wilhelmine Gmnany. Edited by Richard J. Evans.Jewish Activism in Impend Germany: The Struggle for Civil Equality. By Marjorie Lamberti.The German Amy, 1933‐1945: Its Political and Militory Failure. By Mathew Cooper.In the Year ofMunich. By Roy Douglas.Prince Eugene of Savoy. [Men in Office Series.] By Derek McKay.The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle. By Albert Seaton.Lcon Tmfsky. [Modem Masters Series.] By Irving Howe.Philip Mironov and tht Russian Ciuil War. By Sergei Starikov and Roy Medvedev.The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government, 1939‐1949.Soviet‐Ammican Rivalry. By Thomas B. Larson.Women in Russia. Edited by Dorothy Atkinson, Alexander Dallin, and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus.The Pacific War: Worfd War 11 and the Japanese, 1931‐1945. By Saburo Ienaga.Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial, I664‐1773. By Sung Bok Kim.Thomas McKean: Tht Shaping of an American Republicanism. By G. S. Rowe.Rockdale: The Growth of an American Villuge in the Early Industrial Revolution. By Anthony F. C. Wallace.The Rise and Fall ofthe Plantation South. By Raimondo Luraghi.Beverb Tucker: Heart over Head in the Old South. By Robert J. Brugger.Black Odyssey: The Afro‐American Ordeaf in Stauq. By Nathan Irvin Huggins.“Dear Master” Letters of a Slave Family. Edited by Randall M. Miller.The Scalawag in Alabama Politics. By Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins.Schooling for the Nm Slavq: Black Industrial Education, 1868‐1915. By Donald Spivey.Protest, Politirs, and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940‐75. By Dorothy.G@eld. By Allan Peskin.The Master Architects: Building the Unitcd States Foreign Seruice, 1890‐1913. By Richard Hume Werking.A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service. By Martin Weil.The Decision to Divide Germany: Ammican Foreign Policy in Transition. By John H. Backer.Mobilizing Women for War: Cennan and American Propaganda, 1939‐1945. By LeilaJ. Rupp.R. E. Olds : Auto Industty Pioneer. By George S. May.John L. Lewis : A Biography. By Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine.Robert S. Kerr: The Senate Years. By Anne Hodges Morgan.The Ages ofAmerican Law. By Grant Gilmore.American Reformers, 1815‐1860. By Ronald G. Walters.The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle‐class Rcfonn, Chicago, 1880‐1930. By Thomas Lee Philpott.Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900‐1941. By William E. Akin.Amenca S Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbuty. By Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill.The Peopk and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781. By John Leddy Phelan.Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932‐52. By Paul W. Drake.

Motive Power in British Industry and the Accuracy of the 1870 Factory Return

IN recent number of this Reviewl Prof. A. E. Musson drew attention to the industrial horsepower figures in the I870 Factory Return2 and concluded from them that a The statistical evidence relating to industrial power re-emphasizes the traditional importance attached to textiles, especially cotton, in the Industrial Revolution, not only in its early stages but also far into the nineteenth century, as against more recent interpretations which have tended to emphasize advance over broad industrial front.3 He argued that comparison of the I870 Factory Return with the First Census of Industrial Production of I9074 demonstrated that . the really massive growth of steam power occurred in the later nineteenth century, not in the heroic age of the early Industrial Revolution.5 The viability of these propositions depends on the completeness of the I870 Factor Return, however, and to test them it is therefore necessary to establish whether the parliamentary statistics were comprehensive, and if not how close to the truth they were. Prof. Musson's focus was mainly before I850, and while he recognized that the I870 Factory Return was incomplete he did not pursue this point. This article is not, however, intended as critique of Musson's; rather it seeks to take his work forward and establish more comprehensive and realistic figures of steam and water power in Britain in I870. It shows that the I87o Factory Return seriously understated the industrial power at that date, since it was both selective in its coverage, omitting all mining, milling, and public utilities, and was also incomplete even for manufacturing industry; these gaps will be filled in from other sources. The revised figures thus compiled show rather different picture both of the importance of the textile industries and of the rates of growth of power from that painted by Prof. Musson, so some space will also be devoted to brief discussion of these points. The argument may be developed in four stages. Firstly, the legislative background to the i870 Factory Return must be set out, as this vitally affected the form it took. It is then necessary to examine the deficiencies of the Return in the trades to which it applied, after which attention can be turned to the areas it did not cover. Finally, some attempt to aggregate the figures must be made and the problems of comparing the I870 figures with those for I907 discussed.