A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, ConnecticutOxford University Press, 14. des. 2000 - 176 sider This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside. |
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... William Adam allowed me to examine his extensive collection of family papers re- lating to the Forbes and Adam ironworks . Fred Chesson allowed me to use the collection of letters and photographs assembled by the late Charles Rufus ...
... William Adam allowed me to examine his extensive collection of family papers re- lating to the Forbes and Adam ironworks . Fred Chesson allowed me to use the collection of letters and photographs assembled by the late Charles Rufus ...
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| 3 | |
Resources Discovered | 11 |
Independent Artisans | 20 |
Merchant Capitalists | 28 |
ArtisanEntrepreneurs | 39 |
Environment Technology and Community in Salisbury | 54 |
The Challenge of New Markets and Techniques | 68 |
Retreat from Progress | 83 |
Community Culture and Industrial Ecology | 110 |
Ironworks Inventory | 120 |
Ironmaking and Steelmaking Techniques | 124 |
Units and Conversion Factors | 128 |
Notes | 129 |
Bibliography | 147 |
Index | 153 |
A Landscape Transformed | 95 |
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Side 133 - Sketches of a Tour in the Counties of New Haven and Litchfield, Conn., with notices of the Geology, Mineralogy, and Scenery" — in which were described the various rocks passed over; among others the "primitive white marble
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Side 131 - The Turnpike Era in New England," Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1934; FredricJ. Wood, The Turnpikes of New England, Boston: Jones, 1919; Robert B. Gordon, "Travel on Connecticut's Roads, Bridges, and Ferries, 1790-1830," in Connecticut Towns, 1800-1832: Voices of the New Republic, vol.
Side 132 - Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990, pp. 33-37, 65-67. 19. "Simeon Palmer's Trading,
Side 60 - Each forge had associated with it a drafting shop with lighter hammers to draw down the bars...
Side 141 - GM Turner and M. W Jacobus, Connecticut Railroads, Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1986; Robert W Nimke, The Central New England Railway Story, vol.
Side 132 - Pettee, pp. 114, 134, 169. 13. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1882, p.