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Cotton machinery, Textile machinery, Drafters, History, Biography, Design and construction, Technicians in industry, New england, biographyPeople
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Visual mechanic knowledge: the workshop drawings of Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825), New England textile mechanic
2010, American Philosophical Society
in English
0871692635 9780871692634
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS FOR ISAAC MARKHAM, HIS PAPERS, AND HIS DRAWINGS
ch. 1 Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825)
Middlebury in the Late Eighteenth Century
Markham's Family Background in Vermont
Isaac Markham: Early Years
Isaac Markham: Working Life
Markham's Death
Markham's Legacy: Page's Cotton Factory and the Later Middlebury Cotton Industry
ch. 2 Markham in the Context of the Nascent American Cotton-Manufacturing Industry
ch. 3 Visual Knowledge in the Workshop: The Wider Significance of Markham's Papers
A Visual Knowledge Approach
Seeing in a Different Way: The Changing Nature of Visual Representation in European Engineering Before the Mid-1820s
The Diffusion of Visual Engineering Knowledge in the Early American Republic
Visual Aspects of the Generation of New Knowledge in Early-Anglo-American Industrial Engineering
Markham's Visual Engineering Knowledge
ch. 4 The Significance of Isaac Markham and His Workshop Papers
ch. 5 Editorial Method
Identification of the Drawings
Editorial Apparatus
Cross-Referencing
Identification of Mechanisms
pt. II THE PAPERS AND DRAWINGS OF ISAAC MARKHAM
ch. 6 Markham's Drawings and Papers
1.Notebooks and Loose Sheets of Writing
2.Sketchbook
3.Drawings: Carding
4.Drawings: Drawing and Roving
5.Drawings: Spinning
Continuous and Intermittent
6.Drawings: Spinning
"Fly Wheel Spinning"
7.Drawings: Warp Preparation
Warping and Dressing
8.Drawings: Weaving
9.Portfolio Cover: Gears, Pulleys, Cams
pt. III APPENDICES: MICRO-STUDIES
Appendix 1 History and Provenance of the Papers
Appendix 2 The Diffusion of Technology: British and American Published Sources of Industrial Textile Technology Before 1825
Appendix 3 How Inventive Was Markham? Drawings of Exemplars of British Textile Machinery Available to Markham and Selected American Comparators
Appendix 4 The Scotch and Waltham Power Looms and Markham's Power-Loom Designs
Appendix 5 Markham's Drawings and Methods of Early-Nineteenth-Century Machine Making
Appendix 6 As a Record of One Textile Engineer's Practices ca. 1820, How Complete Is This Set of Workshop Drawings?.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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