From machine shop to industrial laboratory : telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830-1920 /

Israel, Paul.

From machine shop to industrial laboratory : telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830-1920 / Paul Israel. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. - viii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; [new ser., no. 14] .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.

0801843790

92000812


Technology--History.--United States
Telegraph--History.--United States
Inventions--History.--United States

T21 / .I77 1992

609.73