Titre et auteur:

America's wooden age : aspects of its early technology / edited by Brooke Hindle.

Publication:

Tarrytown, N.Y. : Sleepy Hollow Restorations, [1975]

Description:

vii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212) and index.
The Forest Society of New England / Charles F. Carroll -- America's rise to woodworking leadership / Nathan Rosenberg -- Early lumbering : a pictorial essay / Charles E. Peterson -- Artisans in wood : the mathematical instrument-makers / Silvio A. Bedini -- Colonial watermills in the wooden age / Charles Howell -- Waterpower in the century of the steam engine / Louis C. Hunter.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: ex-Burlington Public Library (Burlington, Mass.), with ownership stamps and bookplate.

Résumé:

From the earliest settlements until the mid 19th century, Americans used wood, their most abundant national resource, as building material, fuel, and as a raw material for processed chemicals. This book probes the versatility of wood and its significance for American national growth.

ISBN:

0912882158
9780912882154

Sujet:

Technology United States History.
Woodworking industries United States History.
Water-power United States History.
Technologie États-Unis Histoire.
Travail du bois Industrie États-Unis Histoire.
Énergie hydraulique États-Unis Histoire.
Technology.
Water-power.
Woodworking industries.
United States.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Hindle, Brooke.
Provenance. Burlington Public Library. Ownership stamp
Bookplates. Burlington Public Library

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 261795
Cote: BIB 192846
Statut: Disponible