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May I offer the following references:
Petroski, Henry
1992 From Pins to Paper Clips. In The Evolution Of Useful Things, pp.
51-77. Vintage Books, New York.
Dutton, H. I. and S. R. H. Jones
1983 Invention and Innovation in the British Pin Industry, 1790 - 1850.
Business History Review, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration,
Vol. LVII, No. 2:175 - 193
Lubar, Steven
1987 Culture and Technological Design in the 19th-Century Pin Industry: John
Howe and the Howe Manufacturing Company. Technology and Culture. The
International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology, Vol.
28, No. 2:253 - 282.
yours,
Betsy Cassebeer
"Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; always busy without getting
on; always behind hand and lamenting it, without altering her ways; wishing
to be an economist, without contrivance or regularity..." Jane Austen
"Mansfield Park" 1814.
>From: marie pokrant <[log in to unmask]>
>
>I am looking for information on the chronology of straight pins.
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