ACLS Humanities E-Book: Innovation as a social process: Elihu Thomson and the rise of General Electric, 1870-1900

Innovation as a social process: Elihu Thomson and the rise of General Electric, 1870-1900

Carlson, W. Bernard.

Year: 1991.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of figures and tables

Editors' preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations used in footnotes

Introduction

1. The cultivation of a scientific man

2. Learning the craft of invention

3. The Philadelphia partnership, 1879-1880

4. Frustration in New Britain, 1880-1883

5. Success in Lynn: the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, 1883-1892

6. Maintaining the organization: product development at General Electric, 1892-1900

Epilogue and conclusion

Index

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Title:

Innovation as a social process : Elihu Thomson and the rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 W. Bernard Carlson.

Author:

Carlson, W. Bernard

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Innovation as a social process : Elihu Thomson and the rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 W. Bernard Carlson.
Carlson, W. Bernard
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Subject Headings:

• Thomson, Elihu, -- 1853-1937
• General Electric Company -- History
• Inventors -- United States -- Biography
• Electric industries -- United States -- History -- 19th century. LTUL
• Electric power systems -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Industrial organization -- United States -- History -- 19th century

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