9780801897573. Pre-owned: good condition. Hard cover. Language: english. Pages: 432. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 432 P. Contains: illustrations black & white halftones black & white line drawings black & white tables black & white figures. Johns hopkins studies in the history of technology. Paul revere s ride to warn the colonial militia of the british march on lexington and concord is a legendary contribution to the american revolution. Midnight ride industrial dawn reveals another side of this american hero s life that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial revolution. Robert martello combines a biographical examination of revere with a probing study of the new nation s business and technological climate. A silversmith prior to the revolution and heralded for his patriotism during the war revere aspired to higher social status within the fledgling united states. To that end he shifted away from artisan silversmithing toward larger more involved manufacturing ventures such as ironworking bronze casting and copper sheet rolling. Drawing extensively on the revere family papers martello explores revere s vibrant career successes and failures social networks business practices and the groundbreaking metallurgical technologies he developed and employed. Revere s commercial ventures epitomized what martello terms proto-industrialization a transitional state between craft work and mass manufacture that characterizes the broader fast-changing land...
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