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Steam As a General Purpose Technology: a Growth Accounting Perspective
Working Paper No. 75/03 Steam as a General Purpose Technology: A Growth Accounting Perspective Nicholas Crafts © Nicholas Crafts Department of Economic History London School of Economics May 2003 Department of Economic History London School of Economics Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6399 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730 1. Introduction* In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest among growth economists in General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). A GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used, to have many uses, and to have many Hicksian and technological complementarities" (Lipsey et al., 1998a, p. 43). Electricity, steam and information and communications technologies (ICT) are generally regarded as being among the most important examples. An interesting aspect of the occasional arrival of new GPTs that dominate macroeconomic outcomes is that they imply that the growth process may be subject to episodes of sharp acceleration and deceleration. The initial impact of a GPT on overall productivity growth is typically minimal and the realization of its eventual potential may take several decades such that the largest growth effects are quite long- delayed, as with electricity in the early twentieth century (David, 1991). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new GPT is yet to be discovered or only in its infancy, a growth slowdown might be observed. A good example of this is taken by the GPT literature to be the hiatus between steam and electricity in the later nineteenth century (Lipsey et al., 1998b), echoing the famous hypothesis first advanced by Phelps-Brown and Handfield-Jones, 1952) to explain the climacteric in British economic growth. -
Aquidneck Island's Reluctant Revolutionaries, 16'\8- I 660
Rhode Island History Pubhshed by Th e Rhod e bland Hrstoncal Society, 110 Benevolent St reet, Volume 44, Number I 1985 Providence, Rhode Island, 0 1~, and February prmted by a grant from th e Stale of Rhode Island and Providence Plamauons Contents Issued Ouanerl y at Providence, Rhode Island, ~bruary, May, Au~m , and Freedom of Religion in Rhode Island : November. Secoed class poet age paId al Prcvrdence, Rhode Island Aquidneck Island's Reluctant Revolutionaries, 16'\8- I 660 Kafl Encson , presIdent S HEI LA L. S KEMP Alden M. Anderson, VIet presIdent Mrs Edwin G FI!I.chel, vtce preudenr M . Rachtl Cunha, seatrory From Watt to Allen to Corliss: Stephen Wllhams. treasurer Arnold Friedman, Q.u ur<lnt secretary One Hundred Years of Letting Off Steam n u ow\ O f THl ~n TY 19 Catl Bndenbaugh C H AR LES H O F f M A N N AND TESS HOFFMANN Sydney V James Am cmeree f . Dowrun,; Richard K Showman Book Reviews 28 I'UIIU CAT!O~ S COM!I4lTT l l Leonard I. Levm, chairmen Henry L. P. Beckwith, II. loc i Cohen NOl1lUn flerlOlJ: Raben Allen Greene Pamtla Kennedy Alan Simpson William McKenzIe Woodward STAff Glenn Warren LaFamasie, ed itor (on leave ] Ionathan Srsk, vUlI1ng edltot Maureen Taylo r, tncusre I'drlOt Leonard I. Levin, copy editor [can LeGwin , designer Barbara M. Passman, ednonat Q8.lislant The Rhode Island Hrsto rrcal Socrerv assumes no respcnsrbihrv for the opinions 01 ccntnbutors . Cl l9 8 j by The Rhode Island Hrstcncal Society Thi s late nmeteensh-centurv illustration presents a romanticized image of Anne Hutchinson 's mal during the AntJnomian controversy. -
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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-15382-9 - Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 Christine MacLeod Index More information Index Acade´mie des Sciences 80, 122, 357 arms manufacturers 236–9 Adam, Robert 346 Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Adams, John Couch 369 Cragside Aikin, John 43, 44, 71 arms manufacturer 220 Airy, Sir George 188, 360 as hero of industry 332 Albert, Prince 24, 216, 217, 231, 232, 260 concepts of invention 268, 269, 270 Alfred, King 24 entrepreneurial abilities of 328 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, knighted 237–8 Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and monument to 237 Pattern Makers 286–7 opposition to patent system 250, 267–8 ancestor worship, see idolatry portrait of 230 Anderson’s Institution, Glasgow 113, 114, president of BAAS 355 288, 289 Punch’s ‘Lord Bomb’ 224–5 Arago, Franc¸ois 122, 148, 184 Ashton, T. S. 143 Eloge, to James Watt 122–3, 127 Athenaeum, The 99–101, 369 Arkwright, Sir Richard, Atkinson, T. L. 201 and scientific training 359 Atlantic telegraph cables 243, 245, 327 as national benefactor 282 Arthur, King 15 as workers’ hero 286 Askrill, Robert 213 commemorations of, 259 Associated Society of Locomotive Cromford mills, painting of 63 Engineers and Firemen 288 enterprise of 196, 327, 329 era of 144 Babbage, Charles 276, 353, 356–7, factory system 179 375, 383 in Erasmus Darwin’s poetry 67–8 Bacon, Sir Francis in Maria Edgeworth’s book 171 as discoverer 196 in Samuel Smiles’ books 255, 256 as genius 51, 53, 142 invention of textile machinery 174, 176 bust of 349 knighthood 65 n. -
Soho Depicted: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours of Matthew Boulton, His Manufactory and Estate, 1760-1809
SOHO DEPICTED: PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS OF MATTHEW BOULTON, HIS MANUFACTORY AND ESTATE, 1760-1809 by VALERIE ANN LOGGIE A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History of Art College of Arts and Law The University of Birmingham January 2011 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT This thesis explores the ways in which the industrialist Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) used images of his manufactory and of himself to help develop what would now be considered a ‘brand’. The argument draws heavily on archival research into the commissioning process, authorship and reception of these depictions. Such information is rarely available when studying prints and allows consideration of these images in a new light but also contributes to a wider debate on British eighteenth-century print culture. The first chapter argues that Boulton used images to convey messages about the output of his businesses, to draw together a diverse range of products and associate them with one site. Chapter two explores the setting of the manufactory and the surrounding estate, outlining Boulton’s motivation for creating the parkland and considering the ways in which it was depicted. -
Age of Steam" Reconsidered
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Castaldi, Carolina; Nuvolari, Alessandro Working Paper Technological revolution and economic growth: The "age of steam" reconsidered LEM Working Paper Series, No. 2004/11 Provided in Cooperation with: Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Suggested Citation: Castaldi, Carolina; Nuvolari, Alessandro (2004) : Technological revolution and economic growth: The "age of steam" reconsidered, LEM Working Paper Series, No. 2004/11, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89286 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. www.econstor.eu Laboratory of Economics and Management Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 - 56127 PISA (Italy) Tel. -
Matthew Boutlon and Francis Eginton's Mechanical
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by University of Birmingham Research Archive, E-theses Repository MATTHEW BOULTON AND FRANCIS EGINTON’S MECHANICAL PAINTINGS: PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION 1777 TO 1781 by BARBARA FOGARTY A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham For the degree of MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History of Art College of Arts and Law The University of Birmingham June 2010 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT The mechanical paintings of Matthew Boulton and Francis Eginton have been the subject of few scholarly publications since their invention in the 1770s. Such interest as there has been has focussed on the unknown process, and the lack of scientific material analysis has resulted in several confusing theories of production. This thesis’s use of the Archives of Soho, containing Boulton’s business papers, has cast light on the production and consumption of mechanical paintings, while collaboration with the British Museum, and their new scientific evidence, have both supported and challenged the archival evidence. This thesis seeks to prove various propositions about authenticity, the role of class and taste in the selection of artists and subjects for mechanical painting reproduction, and the role played by the reproductive process’s ingenuity in marketing the finished product. -
Civil Engineering
I UNIVERSITY OF 'ILLINOIS CONVOCATION lt _ , ' ! ' I . THE WATT CENTENARY : AND THE I /• COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. · OPEN· HOUSE , ' · f ~L. 0 ' ' ., . 't MARCH 23, 1920 lnscription on the monument to James Watt m Westminister Abbey, London NOT TO PERPETDATE A NAME WHICH MUST ENDURE WHILE THE PEACEFUL ARTS FLOURISH, · BUT TO SHEW THAT MANKIND HAVE LEARNT TO HONOUR THOSE WHO BEST DESERVE THEIR GRATITUDE, THE KING HIS MINISTERS, AND MANY OF THE NOBLES AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO JAMES WATT WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STEAM-ENGINE, ENLARGED THE RESGURCES OF HIS COUNTRY INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, AND ROSE TO AN El\1INENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD BORN AT GREENOCK MDCCXXXVI DIED AT HEATHFIELD IN STAFFORDSHIRE MDCCCXIX WATT CENTENARY CONVOCATION under the auspices of the COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INTRODUCTORY REMARKS by CHARLES RUSS RICHARDS Dean of the College of Engineering ADDRESS: JAMES WATT, HIS LIFE AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD by LESTER PAIGE BRECKENRIDGE, PH.B., M.A., DR.ENG'G Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1893-1909; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 1909- PROGRAM OF THE OPEN HOUSE OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The College of Engineering provides instruction in twelve four year curriculums in the following branches of engineering. Archi tecture Mining Engineering -
PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, I'~
~ .-:/t, r'j; ~assaehusetts Institute of Te, , . ) -~ S~ JUN |~3~ REPORTS f OF THE . , . ~ k PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, i'~ AND r ~ ~ "r [~ DEPARTMENTS.~ ':- ~!! [ 1871-72. ~ ,:rI~,~:~ . _ '-;2 ~-. / l BOSTON: PRESS OF A. A. K;INGMAN. 1872. i "7-1"11 MASSACHUSETTS STITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. PRESIDENT'S REPORT. To the CorToration qf the Institute. G~NTLE~Z~.~":--Your attention is respectfully invited to the accompanying reports, as carefully prepared statements of the condition of the depar~tments to which they relate, and leaving but little to be said in addition. Since tile report of the department of Mining a~.t Metallurgy was put in type, Mr. Samuel Bachelder, of Cambridge, has presentedto the Institute his very ingenious dynamometer, which accurately weighs all the power transmitted through it. This will enable the department to keep an exact record of all the power used in the mining and metallurgcial laboratory in run- ning all or any of the machines in use. We have also received a Blake crusher, size 3 rF by 5", and a 12 inch Whelpley and Storer dry pulverizer. The new smelting and blast furnace~ have been fully designed by Pros Ordway~ and their construc- tion begun. Our thanks are due to H. J. Booth & Co., of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, for a very large and generous reduction in the price of the machinery furnished by them; and it is but justice to I. M. Scott, Esq, of that fil~n, who designed and built the five-stamp battery now in our laboratory, expressly for the Institute, to say that it is complete in all its parts, and gives entire satisfaction. -
Accounting and Labour Control at Boulton and Watt, C. 1775-1810
This is a repository copy of Accounting and Labour Control at Boulton and Watt, c. 1775- 1810. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/11233/ Monograph: Toms, S. (2010) Accounting and Labour Control at Boulton and Watt, c. 1775-1810. Working Paper. Department of Management Studies, University of York Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ promoting access to White Rose research papers Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ 11233 Working Paper Toms, S (2010) Accounting and Labour Control at Boulton and Watt, c. 1775-1810 Working paper number 52. White Rose Research Online [email protected] University of York The York Management School Working Paper No. 52 ISSN Number: 1743-4041 March 2010 Accounting and Labour Control at Boulton and Watt, c. -
Midland Women, Developing Roles and Identitiesc.1760-1860Katrina Maitland-Brown MAA Thesis Submitted in Partia
Fulfilling Roles: Midland Women, developing roles and identities C.1760-1860 Katrina Maitland-Brown MA A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2018 This work or any part thereof has not previously been presented in any form to the University or to any other body whether for the purposes of assessment, publication or for any other purpose (unless otherwise indicated). Save for any express acknowledgments, references and/or bibliographies cited in the work, I confirm that the intellectual content of the work is the result of my own efforts and of no other person. The right of Katrina Maitland-Brown to be identified as the author of this work is asserted in accordance with ss.77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988. At this date copyright is owned by the author. Signature……………………………. Date…………………………………. Abstract This thesis examines the lives of a group of Midland women in the period c. 1760- 1860. They were the wives, sisters, daughters and mothers of the middle-class entrepreneurial and professional men of the region. During this period the Midlands produced individuals who expanded production and commerce, often with little technical innovation, but with a shrewd sense of what was marketable. Men such as the Wedgwoods, Boultons and Kenricks built businesses, sponsored canals and highways, and invented, produced and sold an ever-expanding supply of goods world-wide. Yet while the lives of such men have been celebrated, the women of these families have often been overlooked. -
Hog Chains and Mark Twains: a Study of Labor History, Archaeology, and Industrial Ethnography of the Steamboat Era of the Monongahela Valley 1811-1950
Michigan Technological University Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open Reports 2014 HOG CHAINS AND MARK TWAINS: A STUDY OF LABOR HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND INDUSTRIAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA OF THE MONONGAHELA VALLEY 1811-1950 Marc Nicholas Henshaw Michigan Technological University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etds Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Copyright 2014 Marc Nicholas Henshaw Recommended Citation Henshaw, Marc Nicholas, "HOG CHAINS AND MARK TWAINS: A STUDY OF LABOR HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND INDUSTRIAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA OF THE MONONGAHELA VALLEY 1811-1950", Dissertation, Michigan Technological University, 2014. https://doi.org/10.37099/mtu.dc.etds/790 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etds Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons HOG CHAINS AND MARK TWAINS: A STUDY OF LABOR HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND INDUSTRIAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA OF THE MONONGAHELA VALLEY 1811-1950 By Marc Nicholas Henshaw A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In Industrial Heritage and Archeology MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 2014 This dissertation has been approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Industrial Heritage and Archeology Department of Social Sciences Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Susan Martin Committee Member: Dr. Hugh Gorman Committee Member: Dr. Carol MacLennan Committee Member: Dr. John Nass Department Chair: Dr. -
Chapter 1. Introduction
1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction Control systems are ubiquitous. They appear in our homes, in cars, in industry and in systems for communication and transport, just to give a few examples. Control is increasingly becoming mission critical, processes will fail if the control does not work. Control has been important for design of experimental equipment and instrumentation used in basic sciences and will be even more so in the future. Principles of control also have an impact on such diverse fields as economics, biology, and medicine. Control, like many other branches of engineering science, has devel- oped in the same pattern as natural science. Although there are strong similarities between natural science and engineering science it is impor- tant to realize that there are some fundamental differences. The inspi- ration for natural science is to understand phenomena in nature. This has led to a strong emphasis on analysis and isolation of specific phe- nomena, so called reductionism. A key goal of natural science is to find basic laws that describe nature. The inspiration of engineering science is to understand, invent, and design man-made technical systems. This places much more emphasis on interaction and design. Interaction is a key feature of practically all man made systems. It is therefore essential to replace reductionism with a holistic systems approach. The technical systems are now becoming so complex that they pose challenges compa- rable to the natural systems. A fundamental goal of engineering science is to find system principles that make it possible to effectively deal with complex systems. Feedback, which is at the heart of automatic control, is an example of such a principle.