"Drawing on recent scholarship, the authors review the political and technological conditions that helped
to create the Industrial Revolution.Theydescribe the transfer of technology from England to America; the mechanization
of agriculture and mining; the construction of roads, canals, and railroads;the nature of machine shops, textile
mills, and factories; and the 'American System' of mass production and interchangeable parts.They conclude with
discussions of utopian industrial experiments, the London Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, and the future of
technological competition with Japan and other nations."(Choice)Bibliography.Index.