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Author Usselman, Steven W.

Title Regulating railroad innovation : business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920 / Steven W. Usselman.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents part 1. Assembling the machine, 1840-1876 -- Engines of expansion and extraction: the politics of development -- Acquiring technology: insider innovation -- Patent problems: inventors and the market for technology -- part 2. Running the machine, 1876-1904 -- Patent remedies: politics, jurisprudence, and procedure -- Mastering technology, channeling change -- Standardizing steel rails: engineered innovation -- Engineering enshrined -- part 3. Friction in the machine, 1904-1920 -- Reluctant innovators: the annoying allure of automatic train control -- Limits of engineering: rate regulation and the course of innovation -- Epilogue: the enduring challenge of innovation.
Note Print version record.
Subject Railroads -- United States -- History.
Railroads -- Technological innovations.
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
Spoorwegen.
Technische vernieuwing.
Beheersing.
Regulering.
Overheidsbeleid.
Eisenbahntechnik.
Technische Innovation.
United States.
Railroads. (OCoLC)fst01088711
Railroads -- Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01089228
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Usselman, Steven W. Regulating railroad innovation. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521806364 0521001064 (DLC) 2001043216 (OCoLC)47717806
ISBN 0511041764 (electronic bk.)
9780511041761 (electronic bk.)
0511119720 (electronic bk.)
9780511119729 (electronic bk.)
9780511511745 (electronic bk.)
0511511744 (electronic bk.)
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