A Place of Work
Subtitle: The Geography of an Early Nineteenth Century Machine Shop
Contributors: Galison, Peter L.; Smith, Merrit R.; Voskuhl, Adelheid
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: Between 1813 and 1825 the Boston Manufacturing Company built a textile factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. Their factory is known for many important firsts in American industry, including the first commercially viable power loom, one of the first vertically integrated factories, and one of the first join stock financed manufacturing concerns. This successful factory became the direct model for the large textile mills built along the Merrimack River and elsewhere, iconic locations of American post-colonial industrialization.
Notes: Keywords: Boston Manufacturing Company, Historical Geography, History of Technology, Industrial Revolution, Textile Industry, Waltham.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013