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| Author: | Cookson, G. |
| Title: | Innovation, diffusion, and mechanical engineers in Britain, 1780-1850 |
| Journal: | Economic History Review
1994 : NOV, VOL. 47:4, p. 749-753 |
| Index terms: | INNOVATION DIFFUSION UNITED KINGDOM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In a wide-ranging examination of the role of capital goods' suppliers in stimulating and spreading technical innovation during the nineteenth century , MacLeod focuses attention upon the much neglected mechanical engineering industry. This comment questions some of MacLeod's assumptions about relationships within textile engineering , and between engineers and their customers, and consequently raises doubts about some of the conclusions concerning the flow of technological information. |
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