The Course of Industrial Decline
Subtitle: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801863639
Subjects: Economic history; History of engineering & technology; Manufacturing industries; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 20th Century; History: American; History; Business / Economics / Finance; Massachusetts; USA; Corporate & Business History - General; Textiles & Polymers; Science / History
First sentence: THE SUCCESSFUL production of cotton yarn on powered machinery organized by Samuel Slater, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1790, signaled the reordering of textile production in the direction of modern industry.