From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932

Hounshell, D. A. (1984). From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1984

Link

https://doi.org/10.56021/9780801829758matched

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systems_cybernetics

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Substitutability
  • … shows historically that interchangeable parts—the canonical instance of engineered substitutability—did not arise from individual genius but from the combined development of jigs, gauges, inspection regimes, and shared specifications across firms, an institutional infrastructure that took most of a century to mature.

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