TY - CHAP
T1 - A general-purpose technology at work
T2 - The corliss steam engine in the latenineteenth- century united states
AU - Rosenberg, Nathan
AU - Trajtenberg, Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - The contribution to growth from the steam engine-Industrial Revolution icon and prime example of a "General Purpose Technology"-has remained unclear. This article examines the role that a particular design improvement in steam power, embodied in the Corliss engine, played in the growth of the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth century.
AB - The contribution to growth from the steam engine-Industrial Revolution icon and prime example of a "General Purpose Technology"-has remained unclear. This article examines the role that a particular design improvement in steam power, embodied in the Corliss engine, played in the growth of the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth century.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84970963363&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1142/9789814273596_0006
DO - 10.1142/9789814273596_0006
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AN - SCOPUS:84970963363
SN - 9789814273589
SP - 97
EP - 136
BT - Studies on Science and the Innovation Process
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co.
ER -