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A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) ペーパーバック – イラスト付き, 1998/9/8
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From the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age of the automobile, steelmakers proved central to American industry, building, and transportation. InA Nation of Steel Thomas Misa explores the complex interactions between steelmaking and the rise of the industries that have characterized modern America.A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.
- 本の長さ367ページ
- 言語英語
- 発売日1998/9/8
- 寸法15.24 x 2.31 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-100801860520
- ISBN-13978-0801860522
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A brief review can not do justice to the subtlety with which Misa links steelmaking to a larger socioeconomic environment . . . Based on new information from archival and other primary sources, this well-written, richly textured work greatly expands our knowledge of American industrialization.
--W. David Lewis "Journal of American History"A splendid overview of an industry whose fortunes were inextricably intertwined with the railroads . . . The protions that treat the dynamic interrelations of the steel industry and the railroads clearly stand as the most sophisticated treatment of this complex topic that has yet appeared in print . . . An immensely rewarding book.
--Robert C. Post "Railroad History"Each of Misa's six case studies is fruitful, and together they capture the enormously diverse and complex influences on technological change. Taken as a whole, this study constitutes a massive and successful assault on the neo-classical paradigm . . . This book will profoundly shape the way scholars understand how technologies 'are not only socially constructed but society-shaping.
--David Bensman "American Historical Review"In what will surely become a standard history of steelmaking, Misa integrates that industry's development with the industrial growth of America in the half-century following the Civil War. Involved in the interplay between steel production and the production of America were such developments as the railroads' demand for steel rails following the Civil War, the role of urbanization and especially tall-building construction, the armor plate requirements of the Navy, and the emergence and growth of the automotive industry.
-- "Science, Technology and Society"This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the history of technology. The story of steel is important in its own right, and Thomas Misa writes with remarkable clarity and succinctness . . . The emphasis upon user-producer interactions allows Misa to focus on the social significance of technologies and to bring out nuances and contingencies in the development of critical technologies and industries.
--Edwin T. Layton "Technology and Culture"著者について
Thomas J. Misa is at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology, teaches in the graduate program for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and is a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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What is in the book – The book is divided into seven chapters, which cover the following:
1. The Dominance of Rails – This chapter details the importance on the railroads on the development of US iron and steel production. It discusses the production of wrought iron rails and then the switch to Bessemer Steel rails. There is a little metallurgy in this chapter, but the coverage is general and should not be difficult for the non-metallurgist to follow.
2. The Structure of Cities – This chapter discusses how the construction of metal-framed skyscrapers influenced the US steel business. It explains why Bessemer steel structural members were not of sufficient quality for skyscrapers, and the resulting switch to Open Hearth steel making for this type of application.
3. The Politics of Armor – This chapter deals with the development of steel armor used in warships and on the many innovations required to make steel that could withstand the shells that were fired at warships. There is a discussion of carbonizing to develop the required surface hardness to break up these naval shells. There is also a discussion of the beginnings of the metallurgical methods of analysis and resulting understanding of ferrous metallurgy that made this possible.
4. The Merger of Steel – This chapter details the interaction of the railroads and steel industry and the creation of US steel.
5. The Reform of Factories - This chapter deals with the development of tool steels and the development of the understanding of how they retained their strength when they became red-hot due to high speed machining.
6. The Imperative of Automobiles – This chapter deals with the impact of the automotive industry on the development of the alloy steels needed for axles, crankshafts, transmissions and the like. It also discusses the early work of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in developing standards.
7. The Dynamics of Change – This short chapter deals with reasons why the US steel industry is no longer the world’s largest producer.




One major failing in my view is that he gives all the credit (for pages and pages and pages) for the invention of the Bessemer process to Bessemer, when it should go to Kelly, whose pneumatic refining process preceded Bessemer by several years, and may even have been stolen by Bessemer. (The US Patent Office agreed with Kelly.)