Arms Making In The Connecticut Valley
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Arms Making In The Connecticut Valley
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Author : Felicia Johnson Deyrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Arms Making In The Connecticut Valley written by Felicia Johnson Deyrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Business & Economics categories.
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley
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Author : Felicia Johnson Deyrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley written by Felicia Johnson Deyrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Firearms industry and trade categories.
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley
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Author : Alice Eaton McBee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley written by Alice Eaton McBee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Baltimore (Md.) categories.
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley
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Author : Felicia Johnson Deyrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley written by Felicia Johnson Deyrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Firearms industry and trade categories.
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley
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Author : Felicia Johnson Deyrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley written by Felicia Johnson Deyrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Firearms industry and trade categories.
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley A Regional Study Of The Economic Development Of The Small Arms Industry 1798 1870 By Felicia Johnson Deyrup A Dissertation
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Author : Felicia Johnson Deyrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Arms Makers Of The Connecticut Valley A Regional Study Of The Economic Development Of The Small Arms Industry 1798 1870 By Felicia Johnson Deyrup A Dissertation written by Felicia Johnson Deyrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
Arms And Arms Makers Of Connecticut 1633 2015
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Author : James B. Whisker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Arms And Arms Makers Of Connecticut 1633 2015 written by James B. Whisker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Business & Economics categories.
This reference work discusses the origins and development of arms makers of Connecticut from earliest times until the industrialization of the industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. The arms makers and their arms are linked to changes that occurred with rapidity as Connecticut became a major centre for weaponry from the Civil War to contemporary times. The focus of the research are the earlier and smaller makers rather than the large industrial companies (like Colt) that flourished during the middle of the 19th century. Guns made in pre-Revolutionary war Connecticut generally fall into one of three categories: fowling pieces, the old name for single barrel shotguns; rifles, which are distinguished by heavier octagonal barrels with spiral rifling hand-cut inside; and single-shot handguns or pistols. Rifles were attractive when there was larger game, such as deer, moose, elk or bear, to be hunted. Fowling pieces served as arms for taking water fowl and small game. Handguns, used mostly to back up long arms, were minimally useful for sporting or hunting and are seen far less often than are shoulder arms. There are probably more New England fowlers known than any other type of American made single barrel shotgun. New England guns vary in design because they were produced by a great number of gun makers over a longer time period within a larger geographical area. There were fowling pieces made late in the eighteenth century with post-Revolutionary War era British Brown Bess flintlocks as well as an occasional very late club butt fowler originally manufactured with a percussion lock. Connecticut arms had a surprisingly global distribution as early as the late 17th and early 18th century. They were found on pirate ships in the Caribbean, in compounds of African chiefs, on slavers boats, and among Mohawk and Algonquin raiding parties deep in the frontier; they also were used by pioneer farmers and their families for hunting, defence and sport. Connecticut s abundant iron deposits, waterways and forests as well as the colony s practical mindedness all contributed to launching an early and successful small town and village industry. Connecticut artisans, Professor Whisker and Spiker point out, were canny and agile in incorporating features from French, French Canadian and Dutch gunsmiths and in time developed their own special design features both in shotgun, rifle, handgun and musket manufacturing.
Making Arms In The Machine Age
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Author : James J. Farley
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1994
Making Arms In The Machine Age written by James J. Farley and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Making Arms in the Machine Age traces the growth and development of the United States Arsenal at Frankford, Pennsylvania, from its origin in 1816 to 1870. During this period, the arsenal evolved from a small post where skilled workers hand-produced small arms ammunition to a full-scale industrial complex employing a large civilian workforce. James Farley uses the history of the arsenal to examine larger issues including the changing technology of early nineteenth-century warfare, the impact of new technology on the United States Army, and the reactions of workers and their families and communities to the coming of industrialization. Shortly after the War of 1812, the U. S. Army founded several new arsenals, including Frankford, to build up supplies of arms and ammunition then in short supply. At that time, the Army was held in low regard because of its perceived poor performance in the war, so the arrival of arsenals was not welcomed. By 1870, however, the arsenal at Frankford had integrated itself into the community and become a valued and respected member of it. Farley argues that the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army created an industrial system of manufacture at Frankford well in advance of private industry. He also contends that the evolution of the Army into an employer of a large-scale civilian workforce helped to end the isolation and anti-militarism that plagued it after the War of 1812. Farley's study joins recent work in the history of technology, such as Judith McGaw's That Wonderful Machine, that seeks to understand technological change in its social and cultural context.
The Gunning Of America
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Author : Pamela Haag
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-04-19
The Gunning Of America written by Pamela Haag and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.
Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so we’re told. In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation’s history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters. Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never “sold themselves”; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms. Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester—a shirtmaker in his previous career—had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms. In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichés that have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.
Arming America Through The Centuries
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Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2022
Arming America Through The Centuries written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Business & Economics categories.
"This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the MIC's full flowering in the wake of the Cold War, and how America's current MIC evolved after the events of 9/11 and throughout the War on Terror. Specifically, Cooling argues that the MIC has transformed into a problematic demand for absolute security that is neither practicable nor financially sound. While emphasizing many aspects of Eisenhower's broad conception of the MIC, and Eisenhower's own warning at the close of World War II, Cooling's synthesis provides historical perspective on American industry as a matter of national security, on the rise of outsourcing practices, and on the changing nature of modern warfare"--