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Title

Visual mechanic knowledge : the workshop drawings of Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825), New England textile mechanic / David J. Jeremy and Polly C. Darnell.

Author

Jeremy, David J.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Darnell, Polly C.

Description

xxii, 415 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Series Statement

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge ; v. 263

Uniform Title

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society v. 263.

Subject

• Markham, Isaac, 1795-1825
• Cotton machinery > History > 19th century
• Textile machinery > History > 19th century
• Drafters > New England > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION: CONTEXTS FOR ISAAC MARKHAM, HIS PAPERS, AND HIS DRAWINGS -- ch. 1 Isaac Ebenezer Markham (1795-1825) -- Middlebury in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Markham's Family Background in Vermont -- Isaac Markham: Early Years -- Isaac Markham: Working Life -- Markham's Death -- Markham's Legacy: Page's Cotton Factory and the Later Middlebury Cotton Industry -- ch. 2 Markham in the Context of the Nascent American Cotton-Manufacturing Industry -- ch. 3 Visual Knowledge in the Workshop: The Wider Significance of Markham's Papers -- A Visual Knowledge Approach -- Seeing in a Different Way: The Changing Nature of Visual Representation in European Engineering Before the Mid-1820s -- The Diffusion of Visual Engineering Knowledge in the Early American Republic -- Visual Aspects of the Generation of New Knowledge in Early-Anglo-American Industrial Engineering -- Markham's Visual Engineering Knowledge --^
• ch. 4 The Significance of Isaac Markham and His Workshop Papers -- ch. 5 Editorial Method -- Identification of the Drawings -- Editorial Apparatus -- Cross-Referencing -- Identification of Mechanisms -- pt. II THE PAPERS AND DRAWINGS OF ISAAC MARKHAM -- ch. 6 Markham's Drawings and Papers -- 1. Notebooks and Loose Sheets of Writing -- 2. Sketchbook -- 3. Drawings: Carding -- 4. Drawings: Drawing and Roving -- 5. Drawings: Spinning -- Continuous and Intermittent -- 6. Drawings: Spinning -- "Fly Wheel Spinning" -- 7. Drawings: Warp Preparation -- Warping and Dressing -- 8. Drawings: Weaving -- 9. Portfolio Cover: Gears, Pulleys, Cams -- pt. III APPENDICES: MICRO-STUDIES -- Appendix 1 History and Provenance of the Papers -- Appendix 2 The Diffusion of Technology: British and American Published Sources of Industrial Textile Technology Before 1825 --^
• Appendix 3 How Inventive Was Markham? Drawings of Exemplars of British Textile Machinery Available to Markham and Selected American Comparators -- Appendix 4 The Scotch and Waltham Power Looms and Markham's Power-Loom Designs -- Appendix 5 Markham's Drawings and Methods of Early-Nineteenth-Century Machine Making -- Appendix 6 As a Record of One Textile Engineer's Practices ca. 1820, How Complete Is This Set of Workshop Drawings?

ISBN

• 9780871692634
• 0871692635

LCCN

^^2010046580

OCLC

• 689858491
• SCSB-12299247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library