Visual mechanic knowledge
Subtitle: the workshop drawings of Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825), New England textile mechanic
By: David J. Jeremy and Polly C. Darnell
Contributors: Darnell, Polly C.
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 263; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 263.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780871692634
Subjects: Cotton machinery; Textile machinery; Drafters; History; Biography; Design and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS FOR ISAAC MARKHAM, HIS PAPERS, AND HIS DRAWINGS; title: ch. 1 Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825); title: Middlebury in the Late Eighteenth Century; title: Markham's Family Background in Vermont; title: Isaac Markham: Early Years; title: Isaac Markham: Working Life; title: Markham's Death; title: Markham's Legacy: Page's Cotton Factory and the Later Middlebury Cotton Industry; title: ch. 2 Markham in the Context of the Nascent American Cotton-Manufacturing Industry; title: ch. 3 Visual Knowledge in the Workshop: The Wider Significance of Markham's Papers; title: A Visual Knowledge Approach; title: Seeing in a Different Way: The Changing Nature of Visual Representation in European Engineering Before the Mid-1820s; title: The Diffusion of Visual Engineering Knowledge in the Early American Republic; title: Visual Aspects of the Generation of New Knowledge in Early-Anglo-American Industrial Engineering; title: Markham's Visual Engineering Knowledge; title: ch. 4 The Significance of Isaac Markham and His Workshop Papers; title: ch. 5 Editorial Method; title: Identification of the Drawings; title: Editorial Apparatus; title: Cross-Referencing; title: Identification of Mechanisms; title: pt. II THE PAPERS AND DRAWINGS OF ISAAC MARKHAM; title: ch. 6 Markham's Drawings and Papers; title: 1.Notebooks and Loose Sheets of Writing; title: 2.Sketchbook; title: 3.Drawings: Carding; title: 4.Drawings: Drawing and Roving; title: 5.Drawings: Spinning; title: Continuous and Intermittent; title: 6.Drawings: Spinning; title: "Fly Wheel Spinning"; title: 7.Drawings: Warp Preparation; title: Warping and Dressing; title: 8.Drawings: Weaving; title: 9.Portfolio Cover: Gears, Pulleys, Cams; title: pt. III APPENDICES: MICRO-STUDIES; title: Appendix 1 History and Provenance of the Papers; title: Appendix 2 The Diffusion of Technology: British and American Published Sources of Industrial Textile Technology Before 1825; title: Appendix 3 How Inventive Was Markham? Drawings of Exemplars of British Textile Machinery Available to Markham and Selected American Comparators; title: Appendix 4 The Scotch and Waltham Power Looms and Markham's Power-Loom Designs; title: Appendix 5 Markham's Drawings and Methods of Early-Nineteenth-Century Machine Making; title: Appendix 6 As a Record of One Textile Engineer's Practices ca. 1820, How Complete Is This Set of Workshop Drawings?.