Manufacturing independence
Subtitle: industrial innovation in the American Revolution
By: Robert F. Smith
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781594162473
Subjects: Weapons industry; Industrial revolution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The people...cannot help themselves": the Failure of War Mobilization and the Call for a National Weapons Program; title: "Laboratories...ordnance...artificers [and] Ammunition": the Department of the Commissary General of Military Stores; title: "On the same plan as...Woolwich": Adopting the Industrial Revolution in America; title: "Regiment of Artillery Artificers" and "hired men": Promoting a Manufacturing Revolution in Philadelphia; title: "Artificers, who prefer Liberty to Slavery": Manufacturing Innovation as Carlisle and Springfield; title: "Devise ways and means for procuring [cannon]": Directing Private Manufacturers: Inspection and Instruction; title: "We manufactured all the articles necessary for our defence": Directing Private Manufacturers: Providing Resources; title: "The American Foundery": Military Stores Activities After the Revolution; title: Conclusion