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Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 - Princeton Legacy Library
Judith A. McGaw
Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 - Princeton Legacy Library
Judith A. McGaw
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution
464 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 15, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780691655390 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 464 |
Dimensions | 178 × 254 × 15 mm · 789 g |
Language | English |
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