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Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001

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Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was once a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new how one can make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, together with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the corporate for more than a century–and in conjunction with it the worldwide machine tools industry.

The women and men of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They actually assisted in shaping Rhode Island, the nation and the up to date world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history’s longest strike.

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