The history of Brown & Sharpe turns out to be not only an
important technological and economic story, but also a fascinating
human story. Joseph Brown, the founder, was a skilled
clockmaker-turned-machine-maker who invented new machines, and new
ways to make things, as needed. Samuel Darling was an eccentric
inventor from Maine, a one-time competitor who joined the firm and
brought with him his prized dividing engine. The Sharpes-Lucian,
his son Henry, and grandson Henry, Jr.- guided the firm for more
than a century, and shaped not only the company, but also the
global machine tools industry. Gerald Carbone's history of Brown
& Sharpe tells these stories, bringing the people to life,
putting them into the context of Rhode Island's and the nation's
history, and the history of technology and the political economy of
the United States. Brown & Sharpe's story is the story of the
American Industrial Revolution. But Carbone does much more than
tell a dry story of machines and money, of innovative design and
engineering, profit and loss. The real story here is the human one,
encompassing more than a century-and-a-half of technological
change, labor history, and public policy, culminating in history's
longest strike. How did the owners and managers negotiate the
ever-changing economy, rapid technological change, changing
expectations about work and pay? How did the men and women who
worked at the firm learn their skills and organize their work to
produce and market a dazzling array of measuring devices, sewing
machines, machine tools? How did the firm help shape the city, the
nation, indeed modernity as we live it today?
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