John Bowditch
Biographic Data
| ID | 980606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Bowditch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowditch |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDITCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3295-9921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ingenious Machinists
Reviewed by: Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution by Anthony J. Conners John Bowditch (bio) Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution. By Anthony J. Conners. Albany: Excelsior Editions (imprint of State University of New York Press), 2014. Pp. 282. $24.95. Anthony C. Conners has written a fine outline of the dawning of the mechanized textile industry in New Engla…
The Smithsonian as a Microcosm of American Museum Practice
Reviewed by: The Smithsonian as a Microcosm of American Museum PracticeRobert C. Post, Who Owns America’s Past? John Bowditch (bio) Robert C. Post’s Who Owns America’s Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. 384. $29.95) is an important work for anyone in the museum profession to study. The book is a well-written, at times slightly colloquial, account of the history of the Smithsonian…
A Gothic Novelty
A Gothic Novelty John Bowditch (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The Novelty Works engine in the Henry Ford Museum. (Photo courtesy of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.) The great Novelty Works steam engine in the Henry Ford Museum is arguably the finest surviving example of mid-nineteenth-century ornamented American machinery. Built around 1855, the thirty-foot-tall, fifty-ton, Gothic-style engine is a visual emble…
Power from Steam
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 821 more competitive pricing in the form of contractual rates and in initiating a major technological advance, the articulated unit for double-stacked containers. This is questionably adequate for an optimisticjudgment on the industry’s future, however. The historical literature on declining industries indicates that the odds against reversing a secular decline of the magnitude of the railroads’ decline of the …
Power from Steam
Ferracute
History in Geographic Perspective
The Proud Tower
Rural Revolution in France
The Economic Blockade . W. N. Medlicott , Keith Hancock
Voices of the Industrial Revolution
France in Modern Times
The French Labor Movement . Val R. Lorwin
Industry and Labor - Industry under Napoleon
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Industry and Labor - Industry under Napoleon
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The French Labor Movement . Val R. Lorwin
The Economic Blockade . W. N. Medlicott , Keith Hancock
Voices of the Industrial Revolution
France in Modern Times
Rural Revolution in France
The Proud Tower
History in Geographic Perspective
Ferracute
Power from Steam
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 821 more competitive pricing in the form of contractual rates and in initiating a major technological advance, the articulated unit for double-stacked containers. This is questionably adequate for an optimisticjudgment on the industry’s future, however. The historical literature on declining industries indicates that the odds against reversing a secular decline of the magnitude of the railroads’ decline of the …
Power from Steam
A Gothic Novelty
A Gothic Novelty John Bowditch (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. The Novelty Works engine in the Henry Ford Museum. (Photo courtesy of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.) The great Novelty Works steam engine in the Henry Ford Museum is arguably the finest surviving example of mid-nineteenth-century ornamented American machinery. Built around 1855, the thirty-foot-tall, fifty-ton, Gothic-style engine is a visual emble…
The Smithsonian as a Microcosm of American Museum Practice
Reviewed by: The Smithsonian as a Microcosm of American Museum PracticeRobert C. Post, Who Owns America’s Past? John Bowditch (bio) Robert C. Post’s Who Owns America’s Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. 384. $29.95) is an important work for anyone in the museum profession to study. The book is a well-written, at times slightly colloquial, account of the history of the Smithsonian…
Ingenious Machinists
Reviewed by: Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution by Anthony J. Conners John Bowditch (bio) Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution. By Anthony J. Conners. Albany: Excelsior Editions (imprint of State University of New York Press), 2014. Pp. 282. $24.95. Anthony C. Conners has written a fine outline of the dawning of the mechanized textile industry in New Engla…
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