Ingenious Trade

Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108787061
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ingenious Trade written by Laura Gowing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking women through city archives, it reveals the extent and complexity of their contracts, training and skills, from adolescence to old age. In contrast to the informal, unstructured and marginalised aspects of women's work, this book uses legal records and guild archives to reconstruct women's negotiations with city regulations and bureaucracy. It shows single women, wives and widows establishing themselves in guilds both alongside and separate to men, in a network that extended from elites to paupers and around the country. Through an intensive and creative archival reconstruction, Laura Gowing recovers the significance of apprenticeship in the lives of girls and women, and puts women's work at the heart of the revolution in worldly goods.

Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848638X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ingenious Trade written by Laura Gowing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the stories of girls making their way as apprentices in 17th-century London, through arguments, thefts, profits, and paperwork.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Unfair Foreign Trade Practices: Second session, July 30 and September 24, 1990 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Fagone
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307591506
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Ingenious written by Jason Fagone and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite—a start-up backed by millions in venture capital—designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027708335
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book The Book of Ingenious Devices / Kitáb al-Ḥiyal written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1978-12-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: skilled in geometry, ingenious devices (!lival), music and astronomy. According to Ibn al-Nad!m and Ibn Khallikän their weakest subject was astronamy, but this seems to conflict with the opinions of Ibn Yunus and al-BIrun!, hoth good judges, who spoke highly of the accuracy of the Banu Musa's astronomical observations. Mul)ammad, who was the most influential of the brothers, specialised in gcomctry and astronomy, and excellcd Al)mad in all the sciences except in the construction of ingenious devices. AI-l: Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al- l: Iasan had read only six of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. AI-l: Iasan replied by saying that it was unnecessary for him to read the remainder because he could arrive at the answers to any of Euclid's problem s by deduction. AI-Ma'mun acknowledged al-l: Iasan 's skill, but did not excuse him, saying: "laziness has prevented you from 2 reading the whole ofit-it is to geometry as the Ictters a, b, t, 111 are to speech and writing. " (H. 264). AI-l: Iasan is rarely mentioned by name elsewhere in the sources and may have preferred to devote his time to scholarship, whereas his brothers were involved in a variety of undertakings. At the time of their entry into the House of Wisdom the Banu Musil were paar and needy (H.

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Total Pages : 770 pages
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Download or read book Wileman's Brazilian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1561586560
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Tools Rare and Ingenious written by and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new title expands on Nagyszalanczy's acclaimed "The Art of Fine Tools" by offering a visual feast of the finest and most beautifully crafted vintage tools ever made.

Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher : London : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Seasonal Trades written by Sidney Webb and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1912 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1062 pages
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Download or read book The Industrial Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Roland Hall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
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