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Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885
Contributors:
By (Author) Judith A. McGaw
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
26th March 2019
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Impact of science and technology on society
Development studies
Dewey:
303.483
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
464
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Description
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution
