INDEX

Adams, Henry

Adams, John

Africa

Agriculture

work in

Albert, Prince

Alger, Horatio

Allaire Works

Allen, Ethan

Allis Chalmers

Almy, William

America

American Notes (Dickens)

American Writing Machine

America’s Women’s Home

Ames, Nathan

Analytical Engine (AE)

Anderson, John

Appleton, Nathan

Arc transversals(fig.)

Archbold, John

Arctic

Arden, Elizabeth

Arkwright, Richard

Armories

Armory practice

Arms race

Armstrong, John

Asia

Astronomical instruments

Atlantic, The

Aurora

Austin, William

Ayer, N. W.

Babbage, Charles

AE and

calculating engines by

DE and

Mechanical Notation and

Baird, Matthew

Baldwin, Matthias

Baldwin Locomotive Works (fig.)

production by(table)

Baldwin locomotives

Baltic

Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)

Bank of England

Bank of the United States (BUS)

Banking

Barbuto, Richard

Barclay, Robert Heriot

Barings

Barnum, P. T.

Barrels

hot welding(fig.)

making

Beaumont, Gustave de

Bell, Jacob

Bell, William

Bentham, Jeremy

Bentham, Samuel

Beresford, attack by

Berliner, Emile

Bernhard of Saxe-Weimer-Eisenach, Duke

Bernhardt, Sarah: on Chicago plants

Bessemer, Henry

Bessemer conversion

Beverly Cotton Manufactory

Biddle, Nicholas

Bird, Isabella Lucy

Birmingham, gun making at

Blanchard, Thomas

gun-stocking machinery by

(fig.)

Lee and

machines and

Bloomingdale’s

Bo Xilai

Boeing

Boilers

Bomford, George

interchangeability and

musket repair operation by

pattern and

system of

Bonds

Bonsack, James

Bookout, Steve

Boott, Kirk

Boston Associates

Boston Manufacturing Company

Boulton, Matthew

Boulton & Watt-style engines

Boyden, Uriah

Brahe, Tycho

Brahma, Joseph

Breech cylinder borer(fig.)

Breechloaders(fig.)

Breed, Ebenezer

Bridges

British Institution of Civil Engineers

British Iron Trade Association

Bromley, Alan

Brooklyn Bridge

Brown, Adam

Brown, Dick

Brown, Jack

Brown, Jacob

Brown, Joseph

Brown, Moses

Brown, Noah

Brown, William H.

Brown & Sharpe

Brunel, Isambard K.

Brunel, Marc Isambard

Buckland, Cyrus

Burden, Henry

Burton, James H.

Byron, Lord

Cadillac Automotive Company

Calculating engines

Caledonia

Calhoun, John

Camden and Amboy Line

Camp meetings(fig.)

Canals

building

Capital

investing

Carlyle, organic society and

Carnegie, Andrew

Carnegie Steel(fig.)

Cass, George

Catherine the Great

Chambers gun(fig.)

Charleville muskets

Chauncey, Isaac

Niagara and

Lake Ontario and

North and

problems for

recovery for

Sackets and

shipbuilding and

squadron of

Yeo and

Chemical industry

Cheney, Benjamin

Chesapeake, Shannon and

Chicago Exposition (1892)

Chicopee

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chint

Chippewa, battle of

Chovanec, Patrick

Christmas Carol, A (Dickens)

Chronometers

Churchill, Winston: on protection

Cincinnati

hog-processing in

journalistic tour through

Civil War

economic growth and

health issues from

mass production and

Clay, Henry

Clement, Joseph

Clermont

Clermont Steamboat

Clinton, DeWitt

Clockmakers

Clocks

Coal

Coffing, John: iron and

Collins, E. K.

Collins, Sam

Collins & Company

Collins line

Collinsville

Colt, James

Colt, John

Colt, Roswell

Colt, Samuel

career of

firearms and

interchangeable parts and

London armory and

machinery of

patents for

Root and

Colt Armory

machines at(fig.)

Colt guns

rifling

sales of

Commerce

Commerce Department, GE and

Committee on Machinery

Committee on Standards

Committee to Draft the Declaration of Independence

Confiance

Connecticut River Valley

Constitution, Guerrière and

Consumers

economic growth and

Consumption

investment and

Contracts

Cooke, Jay

Cooper, Carolyn

Corliss, George H.

steam engines by (fig.)

valve regulator by(fig.)

Corliss Steam Engine Company

Cotton

Cotton gins (fig.)

revisiting

Coxe, Tench

Crowe, Tim

Crystal Palace(fig.)

Cummins Engine

Cunard Lines

Cutters(fig.)

Cutting, Uriah

Cylinders(fig.)

breech(fig.)

wire/wooden-toothed

Dalliba, James

Dalrymple, Oliver

Dalzell, Robert

Damon, Matt

De Chaulnes, Duc

Dearborn, Henry

Debt

Decatur, Stephen

Declaration of Independence

Democracy in America (Tocqueville)

Demographics

Dennison, Aaron

Department of Defense

Department of Ordnance

Department stores, first

Dependency ratios(chart)

Detroit

Development

industrial

mechanical

DeWitt Clinton locomotive(fig.)

Dickens, Charles

reflections of

Trollope and

Victorian society and

Diderot, Denis

Difference Engine No. 1 (DE1)

redesigning

Difference Engine No. 2 (DE2) (fig.)

Disassembly lines

Diseases

Distribution

Dix, Dorothy

Doerflinger, Thomas

Domestic Manners of the Americans, The (Trollope)

Don Juan (Byron)

Douglas, Stephen

Dovetailing machine(fig.)

Downie, George

Drawings

machine

patent

Dream Works Animation

Drop hammers(fig.)

Drummond, George

Duke, James

Duke of Gloucester

Dun, R. G.

Dutton, Warren

E. P. Allis Company

E. Remington & Sons

Eagle

Eastman, George

Eckford, Henry

Economic growth

Chinese

Civil War and

consumers and

ingenuity and

Economist, on Chinese demographic crisis

Economy

industrial

Edgar Thomson Works (ET)

Edison, Thomas

Education

Efficiency

Electricity

Elgin Watch Company

Eli, Terry, Jr.

Elliott, Jesse

Employment

agricultural

Encyclopédie (Diderot)

Energy

Enfield arms factory

Engineering

Engines

Boulton & Watt-style

calculating

high-pressure

steam

Englishwoman in America, The (Bird)

Enterprise

Entrepreneurs

Environmental damage

Equation Clock

Erie Canal(fig.)

Erie Railroad

Escapement(fig.)(fig.)

Eugénie, Empress

Euler, Leonard

Evans, Oliver

Factories

block-making

machines and

mass-production

shipbuilding

water-powered

Fair trade

Farming

Feeling piece(fig.)

Ferguson, Niall

Ferris wheel

Fillmore, Millard

Finance

prebellum

Finney, Charles Grandison

Fitch, Charles

Flintlocks(fig.)(fig.)

Flying shuttle(fig.)

Fogel, Robert

Foods

Foot, Adonijah

Forbes, James Bennett

Ford

Ford, Henry: on meatpacking

Forging engine(fig.)

Ft. Erie

Fourdrinier paper-making machinery

Francis, James B.

Franklin Institute

Free trade

Freedman’s Bureau, epidemics and

French, Daniel

Frick, Henry

Fukuyama, Francis

Fulton, Robert

Furnaces

Furniture, production of

Galileo

Gamble, James

Garland, Hamlin

Gary, Elbert

Gauges

parts(fig.)

GDP(chart)

Gear cutter(fig.)

Gears

General Electric (GE)

Gibb, George

Goldman, Sachs

Goodrich, Elizur

Gordon, Robert

Gore, John

Gorham, Benjamin

Gouge, William

Graham, Mary

Gramophones

“Great American Inventors” (Howe)

Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P)

Great Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851)

Great Lakes

naval forces on(table)

warfare on

Great Western

Greene, Catherine

Greene, Constance

Greene, Nathaniel

Grocery chains

Guerrière, Constitution and

Gun making

crafts of

Gun-stocking machines(fig.)

Gun stocks, turning

Gunboats

H. J. Heinz

Hall, John

achievement of

breechloading rifle of(fig.)

contract for

cutting and

gauging and

interchangeability and

machines of

Hall rifle

Hall Typewriters

Hamilton, capsizing of

Hamilton, Alexander

Hargreaves, James

Harlem Railroad

Harper’s

Harpers Ferry

Harrison, John

Harrison, William Henry

Hartford Courant

Hartford plant

Hartley, James

Hawking, Stephen

Health issues

Heddle loom(fig.)

Henry, B. Tyler

Hervieu, August: illustration by

(fig.)(fig.)

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hoadly, Silas

Hobbs, Alfred C.

Hoe, Richard March

Hoe, Robert

Hoe Type Revolving Machine

Holley, Alexander Hamilton

Holley, Alexander Lyman

Holley, John

Holley, Luther

Holley, Myron

Holley Manufacturing

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Homestead Act (1862)

Hot welding(fig.)

Houses/housing

Howard, Edward

Howe, Elias

Howe, Henry

Hu Haifeng

Hu Jintao

Hudson River

Hufty, George

Hull, William

Hunter

Hunter, Louis C.

Huntsman, Benjamin

Hydraulic power

Hydropower

Immigration

Income

diet and

housing and

Industrial Revolution

British

Industrial war

Industrialization

Industry

American

British

Inferno (Dante)

Infrastructure

Inglis, George

Ingots(fig.)

Innovation

Intellectual property

Interchangeability

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Investment

consumption and

Iron

bog

high-carbon

Low-Moor

pig

production of

wrought

Iron industry

Iron ships

Irvine, Callender

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Patrick Tracy

Jamaica Inn (Hitchcock)

Japan

Jeans, Stephen

Jefferson, Thomas

canals/turnpikes and

interchangeability and

Whitney and

Jennies, twelve-/twenty-four-spindle

Jerome, Chauncey

Jervis, John

Jeska, Robert

Jevons, trade restriction and

Jiang Mainheng

Jiang Zemin

Johnson, Robert

Jones, “Captain” Bill

Jones, William

Kansas-Nebraska War

Keiretsu

Kendall, Amos

Kendrick, Thomas

Kenney, Asa

Kentucky rifles

Kerosene lamps

Keyboards(fig.)

Kingston

Kodak

Koenig, Friedrich

Komatsu

Kuhn, Loeb

L. C. Smith & Brothers

Labor

cheap/expensive

Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company

Lady of the Lake

Lake Champlain

battle of

naval power on(table)

Lake Erie

battle of

naval forces on(table)

Lake Niagara

Lake Ontario

arms race on

Chauncey and

control of

encounters on

naval power on(table)

(table)(table)

Lakwete, Angela

Land grants, state/federal

Landes, David

Lane & Bodley, mill by

Lard

Lard rendering apparatus(fig.)

Lardy, Nicholas

Lathes

Lawrence

Lawton, Pliny

Lee, Roswell

Blanchard and

gauges and

Wadsworth and

Lehman Bros.

Leland, Henry

Levi and Porter

Levin Zhu

Li Peng

Lincoln, Abraham: slavery and

Lincoln, Levi, Jr.

Linear transversals(fig.)

Linnet

Livingston, Robert

Lloyd, James

Lock-plates

Locks

Locomotives

American

delivering

parts for

Logging

Logistics, wars and

London Journal of Arts and Sciences

London Science Museum

London Times

on America

on protection

Longitude Act

Longitude problem

Looms(fig.)

Lord Melville

Lowell, Francis Cabot

contributions from

Lowell canals, map of(fig.)

Lowell Female Labor Day

Lowell Hydraulic Experiments

Lowell Locks & Canal Company

Lowell Machine Shop

Lowell Manufacturing

Lowell mills

Lowell Offering, The

Lundys Lane, battle of

Macdonough, Thomas

Machine shops

Machinery

building/repairing

cutting/trimming

farm

gun making

heavy

initial

mass production by

precision

problems with

productivity-enhancing

screw-cutting

special-purpose

spinning

water-powered

Madison

Madison, James

Manufacturing

American system of

armory practice-style of

automated

competition in

employment in

high-volume

increase in

interest in

mass

military

power for

precision

productivity in

rights

semiconductor

western

Marketing

Mars Works

Marshall, trade restriction and

Martha Furnace

Martineau, Harriet

travels of

Mary Taylor

Mass production

accurate

furniture

mechanized

models for

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company

Maudslay, Henry

micrometer of

tool industry and

work of

Maudslay Sons and Field

McCormick, Cyrus

Measuring machine(fig.) millionth-of-an-inch

Meatpacking

railroads and

Mechanical Notation

Mechanization

worker recalcitrance/union resistance and

Melville

Merchants

Merrimack Canal

Merwin, George

Mesabi Range

Metals

Metalworking

Mexican War (1846)

Miami-Erie Canal

Micrometers(fig.)

Microscopes

Middle class

economic life and

government by

Middle-class nation, first

Middle-income transition

Miller, Phineas Whitney and

Milling

Milling machines

Mills

construction of

cotton

organization at

portable

rail/rod

spinning

water-powered

Mills, James K.

Minié ball

Mining

Mitchell, Robert

Mitchell and Rammelsberg

Mohawk

Mohawk and Hudson Railroad

Monroe, James

Montgomery, Ward

Moody, Paul

drive-shaft belting and

loom work by

machine shops of

manufacturing system by

process improvements by

water-mill machinery and

Morfit, Campbell: soap-boiling apparatus of(fig.)

Morgan, J. P.

Morrill, Justin

Morrill Act

Morse, Samuel F. B.

Mulcaster, William

Muskets

interchangeable parts for

loading/firing

making

pattern

problems with

Napoleon

Napoleonic wars

Nasmyth, James

Natural resources

Naval Chronicle

Naval power

on Great Lakes(table)

on Lake Champlain(table)

on Lake Erie(table)

on Lake Ontario(table)

(table)(table)

Navigation

Nelson, Horatio

New Orleans

New town movement

New York Central

New York City Yacht Club

New York Harbor

New York Herald

New York Navy Yard

New York Times

Newcomen, Thomas: steam engine by (fig.)

Newton, Isaac

Niagara

Niagara campaign

Niagara River Suspension Bridge

Niles, Hezekiel

Niles Weekly Register

Nobel brothers

Nortel

North, Simeon(fig.)

contract for

pistol making by

North Star

Northern Pacific Railroad

Novelty Works

Nugent, “Mountain Jim,”

Nutrition, work output and

O’Conor, Richard

Ohio River

hog processing and

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturing (Babbage)

Oneida

Organization

Pacific

Pacific Railway Act (1862)

Paper handling

Papin, Denis

Paris Exposition (1857)

Parsons, Charles

Parts

problems with

Party Politburo

Patent Arms Manufacturing Company

Patent law

Patent Office

Patents

claim-jumping

intellectual property and

litigation over

managing

Pawtucket Canal

Pearson, John

Peddlers

Pendulums

Pennsylvania Railroad

Percy, Henry

Perkins, Jacob

Perry

Perry, Oliver Hazard

Peterson Institute

Philadelphia-Germantown Railroad

Phonographs

Pigou, trade restriction and

Pike

Pike, Zebulon

Pillsbury

Pistols

contract for

making

Politics

Pollution

Pomeroy, Lemuel

Popplewell, Frank

Population growth(table)

Porkopolis

Portage Railroad

Porter, Edward

Porter, Levi

Portsmouth block-making factory

Postcards

Potemkin, Grigory Alexandrovich

Precision

Prescott, Benjamin

Prevost, George

Chauncey and

on St. Lawrence

on Yeo

Prince Regent

Princess Charlotte

Printing

presses

Procter, William: soap making by

Proctor, Henry: retreat by

Procurement

arms

military

Production

arms

big-ticket

high-precision

industrial

maximizing

problems with

systems

Productivity

agricultural

improving

labor

manufacturing

Prometheus, performance of

Provincial Marine

Psyche

Public school movement

Pullman, George

Pumps

Punch

Purchasing power

Queen Charlotte

R. Hoe & Co.

Railroad rebates

Railroads

American

British

building

financing for

freight on

growth of

meatpacking and

miles of(table)

network of

outline of

problems with

rails for

standardization of

western

Rails

Rammelsberg, Frederick

Ramsden, Jesse

Recession

Refineries

Remington Typewriter

Revolutionary War

Reynolds, Edwin

Rifle Works

Rifles

breech-loading(fig.)

making

muzzle-loading

Rifling machines(fig.) (fig.)

Robbins and Lawrence

Rockefeller, John D.(fig.)

leadership of

railroad rebates and

Roebling, John

Rogers, Henry

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elisha King

machinery of

mass production and

patent of

Rosenwald, Julius

Rothenberg, Winifred

Rothschild, Nathan

Rothschild, “Natty,”

Rough sawing, machine for (fig.)

Royal Astronomical Society

Royal George

Royal Navy

Royal Yacht Squadron

Rubinstein, Helena

Sackets Harbor

Chauncey and

Savery, Thomas

St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence(fig.)

Salisbury iron region

Sandys Creek, defeat at

Saratoga

Saw mills

portable(fig.)

Saws(fig.)

circular

crosscut/rip

Schawb, Charlie

Schiff, Jacob

Schneider Electric

Scholes, Christopher

Scholes typewriter(fig.)

Scientific American

Scott, Tom

Scott, Winfield

Scourge

Scranton, George

Scranton, Selden

Sears and Roebuck

Second Band of the United States

Seminole wars

Seward, William

Sewing machines

Sextants, development of

Shannon, Chesapeake and

Sharpe, Lucien

Sharps, Christian

Sharps rifle

Sheaffe, Roger

Sheffield steel

Shih, Victor

Shipbuilders’ war

Shipping

Shlakman, Vera

Shoes

Sholes, Christopher

Shreve, Henry M.

Siemens

Siemens, Charles

Simonson’s

Singer, Isaac M.

Sirius

Slater, Samuel

Slaughtering

Slavery

Small arms

Smith, Adam

Smith, Sidney

Soap, making

Social security system, Chinese

Social unrest

Society for Useful Manufactures

Society in America (Trollope)

Software

Solvay technology

Spence, Michael

Sperry Rand

Spindles

Spinning

Springfield Armory

production at

Standard Oil Company

Standard Typewriter Company

Standardization

Starr, Nathan

Starrucca Viaduct

State Council

Steam Boat

Steam engines

early

Evans-model

high-pressure

machinery and

mining industry and

power from

stationary

Steam shovels

Steamboats

building

explosions on

western

Steamships

Stebbins, Josiah

Steel

production of(fig.)

railroads and

Steel industry

Steers, George

Stephenson, George

Stereoscopes

Stevens, John

Stevens, John Cox

Stevens, Robert L.

Stock duplicating machine, view of (fig.)

Stock inletting machine, detail of (fig.)

Stockton and Darlington Railroad

Stockyards

Stoves

Strutt, Jedidiah

Stubblefield, James

Summit Tunnel

Sumner, Charles

Superior

Swade, Doron

Swift, Gustavus

Sylph

Tailer, Edward

Tarbell, Ida

Tariffs

Taylorism

Technology

advanced

ball-bearing

British

clockmaking

electrolytic

ginning

information

machining

mechanical precision and

military

printing

production

spinning

stealing

steam-engine

steel/iron

suspension bridge

textile

transferring

Tecumseh

Telegraphs

Telephones

Telescopes

Ten Cylinder machine(fig.)

Terry, Eli

adjustable escapement of (fig.)

clocks and

Texas Rangers, Colt pistols and

Textile industry

Textile mills

Textiles

manufacture of

Thomas, Seth

Thomson, Edgar

Thorndike, Israel, Jr.

Thorndike, Israel, Sr.

Thornton, William

Three Gorges Dam

ThyssenKrupp

Timber, producing

Tippecanoe, battle at

Tocqueville, Alexis de

middle-class and

Tompkins, Daniel

Tools

machine

measuring

Torricelli, Evangelino

Tousard, Louis

Trade

deficits

disruption of

unfair

Transportation

Cincinnati and

extension of

steam

water

Treasury Department

Trevithick, Richard

Trip-hammer barrel welder

Trollope, Anthony

Trollope, Frances(fig.) (fig.)

camp meetings and

Cincinnati and

on industriousness

on internal improvements

on malaria

on sedition

travels of

Trollope, Henry

Tsing Hua University

Turbines

Turnpikes, building

Twain, Mark

Typewriters(fig.)

Uniformity

Urbanization

US Chamber of Commerce

US Cyber Command

US Steel

US Supreme Court

Ushant

Valves(fig.)

Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

steamships by

Vernier Caliper(fig.)

Victoria, Queen

Victory

Wadsworth, Decius

armory practice and

interchangeability and

Lee and

Wadsworth and

Whitney and

Walker, Sam

Wallis, George

Waltham mill

Waltham Watch Company

Wang Linjun

War Department

War of 1812:

lake theater of(map)

Ward, Artemus

Warships

Washington

Washington, George

Washington, D.C.: burning of

Watchmaking

Water

flow

pollution of

rights

Waterpower

Waters, Asa

Waterwheels(fig.)

Watt, James

Wealth of Nations (Smith)

Weaving

Webb, William H.

Webster, Ambrose

Webster, Daniel

Wellington, Duke of

Wen Jiabao

Wen Yunsong

Westervelt & Mackay

Westinghouse

Whewell, William

Whitney, Eli

case against

cotton gin of(fig.)

interchangeability and

Irvine and

Jefferson and

Madison and

manufacturing by

mechanization and

Miller and

muskets by

North and

reputational thrill ride of

Stebbins and

Tompkins and

tutorship of

Wadsworth and

Whitney, Eli, Jr.

Whitworth, Joseph

measuring machine by

Wilkinson, David

Wilkinson, Hannah

Wilkinson, John

Wilkinson, Oziel

Willcox & Gibbs

William of Ockham

Wilson, Ebenezer

lard rendering apparatus of (fig.)

Winchester

Wolcott, Oliver

Wolfe

Wood, Gordon

Woolsey, Melancthon

Woolworth, Frank

Work output

nutritional intake and

Works of Industry of All Nations

World Bank, water and

World Trade Organization

Wukan

Yarn, making

Yeo, James Lucas

Chauncey and

Kingston and

recall of

warships of

Zhu Rongji