The British Machine Tool Industry, 1850 1914

By: Roderick Floud

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Paperback | 20 April 2006

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Machine tools are vital to our industrial, metal-using society. This book is the first history of the British machine-tool industry during an important period of its development, a time when it played a crucial part in the transformation of the British economy. The author discusses the structure of the industry, its performance in international trade, and, through an analysis of the voluminous records of one firm, its efficiency and productivity. This discussion is placed within the wider context of current controversies about the behaviour of the British economy during the 'Great Depression' of the later nineteenth century, and its conclusions do not support pessimistic views of the performance of British industry. The book is also intended as a contribution to the explanation of the process of technological change, a problem of increasing interest to economists and economic historians.

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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Manufacturing Industries History Specific Events & Topics in History Industrialisation & Industrial History Regional & National History European History

Introduction
The engineering industries
The technical history of machine tools, 1850-1914
The machine tool industry: structure and explanation
International trade in machine tools
Greenwood and Batley: history, records and methods
Greenwood and Batley: markets and prices
Greenwood and Batley: production
Conclusion
List of works cited
Notes
Index
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