Robert B Gordon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 353725 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert B Gordon |
| NOMBRES | Robert B |
| APELLIDO | Gordon |
| FIRMA | GORDON R B |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9674-3700 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 383 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Hearth as the Heart of the Family
This chapter explores the foodways and daily lives of Aboriginal people at the former Weipa Mission, North-Eastern Australia. Christian Missions were a vital part of the colonising repertoire of the British in Australia, as elsewhere, but despite the hardships and traumatic histories these places represent, they are frequently of very high cultural significance to First Nations’ People today. As in many colonial settings, documentary records are …
Can one obtain dignity while using the Master's categories
Perpetual power” from the tides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1813–1858
Internal oxidation of cast iron artifacts from an 18th-century steel cementation furnace
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century (review)
Reviewed by: Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century Robert B. Gordon (bio) Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century. By Chris Evans and Göran Rydén. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xv+359. $148. Throughout the eighteenth century, iron flowed from Sweden and Russia to England and, in manufactured goods, onward to Africa and America. Colonial iron made the return journey to England. This commodity chain was entwined…
“Bottom–up” study of in-use nickel stocks in New Haven, CT
A Revolution in Arms
Reviewed by: A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles Robert B. Gordon (bio) A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles. By Joseph G. Bilby . Yardley, Pa.: Westholm Publishing, 2006. Pp. ix+270. $26. The outbreak of the Civil War forced ordnance officers to find weapons for the Union army just as they were coping with the technological change arising from the displacement of the smoothbore musket by the rif…
Traditions and transitions in Korean bronze technology
European Metals in Native Hands
Reviewed by: European Metals in Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640–1683 Robert B. Gordon (bio) European Metals in Native Hands: Rethinking Technological Change, 1640–1683. By Kathleen Ehrhardt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+253. $60/$29.95. A widely accepted historical interpretation of the first two centuries of contact between North American Indians and Europeans saw native peoples' own cultures disinte…
Transitions in cast iron technology of the nomads in Mongolia
Late horizon silver, copper, and tin from Machu Picchu, Peru
Metallurgy of Bronze Used in Tools From Machu Picchu, Peru
Although the tin‐bronze artisans’ tools found at Machu Picchu appear to have been cast to their final shape, examination of their microstructures shows that they were forged and annealed. As found, the tools were broken or cracked due to poor ductility of the bronze. Rolling and annealing of samples of bronze formulated with sulphur and iron additions to replicate the metal used at Machu Picchu show that the minimum amount of deformation needed t…
The Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Zinc
A comprehensive annual cycle for stocks and flows of zinc, based on data from circa 1994 and incorporating information on extraction, processing, fabrication, use, discard, recycling, and landfilling, was carried out at three discrete governmental unit levels—54 countries and 1 country group (which together comprise essentially all global anthropogenic zinc stocks and flows), nine world regions, and the planet as a whole. All of these cycles are …
Twentieth century copper stocks and flows in North America
Mine Hill in Franklin and Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Reviewed by: Mine Hill in Franklin and Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey: Mining History, 1765–1900 Robert B. Gordon (bio) Mine Hill in Franklin and Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey: Mining History, 1765–1900. By Pete J. Dunn. Privately printed, 2002. Pp. 1,102 in 7 volumes. $15 per volume, $75 the set, from Franklin Mineral Museum in Franklin, New Jersey, and Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, N…
Iron artifacts from the land of Kush
The contemporary European copper cycle
A Landscape Transformed
A landscape transformed
It's about Time
Making Iron on the Bald Eagle
King Croesus' Gold
A Landscape Transformed
This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside.
Artisan-Entrepreneurs
The adventurers and colonial investors who initiated ironrnaking in the Salisbury district hired artisans to run bloomery forges and make products such as nails and hardware needed by settlers in the new lands. Within a few years artisan-proprietors began making these products in their own forges (see chap. 3). Then a new generation of entrepreneurs with both artisanal and managerial skills began making and selling sophisticated products to dista…
Independent Artisans
By 1730 New England colonists needed increasingly large amounts of iron for their expanding economy. Shipsmiths forged iron fastenings used in the vessels they built for the coastal and West Indian trades. The mariners who sailed these ships wanted large, strong iron anchors. Millwrights needed waterwheel axles and gudgeons, spindles, and numerous other iron components for gristmills, sawmills, fulling mills, and oil mills. Builders of the forges…
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Reassessment of the evidence for early metallurgy in Niger, West Africa
Process Deduced From Ironmaking Wastes and Artefacts
Microstructures and compositions of ironmaking slag found at 42 sites where known technique was practiced show how the different processes for making wrought iron can be identified from the wastes they produced. Fayalite, wustite (or magnetite), and glass are common to all the slags. Puddling slags contain characteristic bands of iron sulfides. Minerals present only in bloomery slag identify 41 of 57 bloomery and finery slags examined. In the abs…
The Texture of Industry
The experience has touched deeply on the values, art and relation to the land, of the people's of North America. Yet the presentation of our heritage, the authors of the proposed book argue, has been largely framed in the narrow context of inventors or in the social conflict between labour and capital - and fails to reveal much of the texture of life. The Texture of Industry is an overview of the industrialization of North America using material …
The Texture of Industry
While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America…
Adaptation of Technology to Culture and Environment
Etude comparative des techniques et des installations metallurgiques du 19eme siecle aux Etats-Unis et au Malawi.Pour l'A., une telle etude permet de mieux cerner l'inter-relation entre la technologie et la culture dans une societe
Transitions in cast iron technology of the nomads in Mongolia
Iron artifacts from the land of Kush
Laboratory evidence of the use of metal tools at Machu Picchu (Peru) and environs
Late horizon silver, copper, and tin from Machu Picchu, Peru
Metallographic Study of Iron Artefacts From the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
The microstructures of two adzes, two hoes and a spear point from Iron Age settlement sites in the Kruger National Park have been examined. Electron microprobe analyses of the slag inclusions were also made. Some of the objects are made of high carbon steel while others have a highly variable carbon content. All appear to have been forged at relatively low temperature and then annealed at a low temperature near 700°C. None have been hardened by q…
Picturing Bushmen
The Denver African Expedition went to Africa in 1925 to seek the cradle of Humanity. The explorers claimed to have found the Missing Link in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari - and they proceeded to market this image. As Robert J. Gordon shows in Picturing Bushmen, the impact of the expedition lay not simply in its slick merchandising of bushmen images but also in the fact that the pictures were exotic and aesthetically pleasing. The Denver Expe…
Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion
Journal Article Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion Get access Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion. By ROBERT B. GORDON, TJALLING C. KOOPMANS, WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS and BRIAN J. SKINNER. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. vi+ 173. £19.95, US $29.95 hardback.) David Pearce David Pearce University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Work of Metallurgical Artificers at Machu Picchu, Peru
The 168 metal artifacts collected at Machu Picchu in 1912 by Hiram Bingham have been examined for evidence that metallurgical artificers worked at this site in pre-Columbian times. Fifteen artifacts have been identified as metal stock, work in progress, or waste materials from metallurgical processes. Bronze was made by alloying metallic tin and copper and was cast into both finished objects and stock for subsequent forging. Hammering was done wi…
All That Glitters
Traditions and transitions in Korean bronze technology
A Landscape Transformed
Who Turned the Mechanical Ideal into Mechanical Reality
In 1884 Charles Fitch described interchangeable manufacture as a mechanical ideal accomplished by American inventors, entrepreneurs, and mechanicians who in fifty years had transformed the United States from an agricultural nation dependent on imported manufactured goods into a country that was exporting sophisticated production machinery to European customers.' The work of Thomas Warner and Cyrus Buckland at the Springfield Armory in the 1840s a…
Hydrological Science and the Development of Waterpower for Manufacturing
In the 18th century power from the fall of water best met the economic and technical requirements for prime movers of machinery in factories. It provided reliable, steady motion; was both widely available and accessible; and remained a competitive source of industrial power until well into the 19th century in both Great Britain and America.' Throughout this time the application of the thendeveloping science of fluid mechanics helped designers mak…
Internal oxidation of cast iron artifacts from an 18th-century steel cementation furnace
Metallurgy of Bronze Used in Tools From Machu Picchu, Peru
Although the tin‐bronze artisans’ tools found at Machu Picchu appear to have been cast to their final shape, examination of their microstructures shows that they were forged and annealed. As found, the tools were broken or cracked due to poor ductility of the bronze. Rolling and annealing of samples of bronze formulated with sulphur and iron additions to replicate the metal used at Machu Picchu show that the minimum amount of deformation needed t…
Simeon North, John Hall, and Mechanized Manufacturing
SIMEON NORTH, JOHN HALL, AND MECHANIZED MANUFACTURING To the Editor: Historians generally agree that Simeon North and John Hall were pivotal figures in the introduction of machine tools and the attainment of interchangeability in American manufacturing technology; many of them accept the corollary that interchangeability of parts in man ufactured mechanisms was achieved through the use of machine tools.1 However, in two recent articles—one in th…
Out of the Fiery Furnace
Materials for Manufacturing
The first American ironworks were small and served local needs by making bar iron in bloomeries and, in a few localities, cast iron in blast furnaces.1 Iron-making establishments often had a short life because bog-ore deposits, the source of iron used, were small. Eventually, iron making began to concentrate around larger deposits of ore that were conveniently located near sources of waterpower; in Connecticut, where primary iron production had b…
Cost and Use of Water Power during Industrialization in New England and Great Britain
Robert B. Gordon, Cost and Use of Water Power during Industrialization in New England and Great Britain: A Geological Interpretation, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 1983), pp. 240-259
Metallographic Study of Iron Artefacts From the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
The microstructures of two adzes, two hoes and a spear point from Iron Age settlement sites in the Kruger National Park have been examined. Electron microprobe analyses of the slag inclusions were also made. Some of the objects are made of high carbon steel while others have a highly variable carbon content. All appear to have been forged at relatively low temperature and then annealed at a low temperature near 700°C. None have been hardened by q…
The Road to Jaramillo
Laboratory evidence of the use of metal tools at Machu Picchu (Peru) and environs
Industrial Evolution
Hydrological Science and the Development of Waterpower for Manufacturing
In the 18th century power from the fall of water best met the economic and technical requirements for prime movers of machinery in factories. It provided reliable, steady motion; was both widely available and accessible; and remained a competitive source of industrial power until well into the 19th century in both Great Britain and America.' Throughout this time the application of the thendeveloping science of fluid mechanics helped designers mak…
A Legacy from Victorian Enterprise
Medieval Iron in Society-Norberg, Sweden, May 6-10, 1985
The Work of Metallurgical Artificers at Machu Picchu, Peru
The 168 metal artifacts collected at Machu Picchu in 1912 by Hiram Bingham have been examined for evidence that metallurgical artificers worked at this site in pre-Columbian times. Fifteen artifacts have been identified as metal stock, work in progress, or waste materials from metallurgical processes. Bronze was made by alloying metallic tin and copper and was cast into both finished objects and stock for subsequent forging. Hammering was done wi…
Reassessment of the evidence for early metallurgy in Niger, West Africa
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles by R. F. Tylecote
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 133 and iron to a certain extent: the fact that coppersmiths and ironsmiths were at times the same individuals; the frequent occurrence of the two metals on the same objects; the manufacture of identical objects, in iron and in copper, with clearly quite disparate func tions, and so forth. But for a complete and rich understanding of Af rican metals and metallurgy, we need a study such as Herbert’s that will …
Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion
Journal Article Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion Get access Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion. By ROBERT B. GORDON, TJALLING C. KOOPMANS, WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS and BRIAN J. SKINNER. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. vi+ 173. £19.95, US $29.95 hardback.) David Pearce David Pearce University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Out of the Fiery Furnace
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles
A revision of Tylecote's 1962 Metallurgy in Archaeology (see AATA 4-3960 ), this book provides a technical account of prehistoric metallurgical processes and artifacts. It covers the winning and fabrication of all metals in the British Isles from the beginning of metallurgy there through the early modern period. It reflects the growing use of metallographic methods of analysis in the examination of artifacts and other trends in archaeometry. Illu…
Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion
Who Turned the Mechanical Ideal into Mechanical Reality
In 1884 Charles Fitch described interchangeable manufacture as a mechanical ideal accomplished by American inventors, entrepreneurs, and mechanicians who in fifty years had transformed the United States from an agricultural nation dependent on imported manufactured goods into a country that was exporting sophisticated production machinery to European customers.' The work of Thomas Warner and Cyrus Buckland at the Springfield Armory in the 1840s a…
Out of the Fiery Furnace
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 673 number of problems. The first difficulty is with the chronology of the European Early Bronze Age. Penhallurick sees a gap of 300 years between the beginnings of the European and the British EBA, when there is probably little, or no, difference. Second, the dating of the working of Cornish tin grounds is not precise, being based on typologi cal comparison. Third, tin bronze in Europe is probably no earlier …
Sheffield Steel and America
Sheffield Steel and America
164 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE when it was becoming clear that incandescent lamps could be sold separately from entire lighting systems and could be marketed directly to consumers. Again, there is scant evidence to support this interesting observation, but perhaps Heerding will discuss who purchased the bulbs produced by Philips and its Dutch rivals in the second volume. Despite these unexplored issues, the Philips group is to be con gr…
Simeon North, John Hall, and Mechanized Manufacturing
SIMEON NORTH, JOHN HALL, AND MECHANIZED MANUFACTURING To the Editor: Historians generally agree that Simeon North and John Hall were pivotal figures in the introduction of machine tools and the attainment of interchangeability in American manufacturing technology; many of them accept the corollary that interchangeability of parts in man ufactured mechanisms was achieved through the use of machine tools.1 However, in two recent articles—one in th…
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
All That Glitters
436 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE All That Glitters: Readings in Historical Metallurgy. Edited by Michael L. Wayman. Montreal: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1 Place Alexis Nihon, 1210—3400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, H3Z 3B8), 1989. Pp. x+197; illustrations, references. $C50.00 + $C3.00 handling. Because scientists and technologists from Michael Faraday onward have from time to time interested themselves in the history of …
All That Glitters
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