The technology machine
Subtitle: how manufacturing will work in the year 2020
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 14, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780684837093
Subjects: Manufacturing (Specific Aspects); Technological Forecasting; Manufactures; Technology; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Production engineering; Business/Economics; Operations Research; Manufacturing; Engineering - General; Business & Economics / Systems & Planning; Business strategy; Technological innovations; Industrial Management
First sentence: When Francis Cabot Lowell, through a supreme act of industrial espionage, memorized the guts of the English power loom systems he had seen in 1811 on an extended stay in Great Britain, he launched a two-hundred-year run for American manufacturing.