Second Cycle bibliography for Installation through Deployment Periods
Bibliography Installation Period 1829-1848
Core Theoretical Framework
Perez, C. (2002). Technological revolutions and financial capital: The dynamics of bubbles and golden ages. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Perez, C. (2010). Technological revolutions and techno-economic paradigms. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 185-202.
Schumpeter, J. A. (1939). Business cycles: A theoretical, historical, and statistical analysis of the capitalist process. McGraw-Hill.
Schumpeter, J. A. (1942). Capitalism, socialism and democracy. Harper & Brothers.
Freeman, C., & Perez, C. (1988). Structural crises of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour. In G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. Nelson, G. Silverberg, & L. Soete (Eds.), Technical change and economic theory (pp. 38-66). Pinter Publishers.
Historical Studies of the Second Technology Cycle
Mokyr, J. (1990). The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress. Oxford University Press.
Mokyr, J. (2009). The enlightened economy: An economic history of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press.
Landes, D. S. (1969). The unbound Prometheus: Technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present. Cambridge University Press.
Berg, M. (1994). The age of manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, innovation and work in Britain. Routledge.
Allen, R. C. (2009). The British Industrial Revolution in global perspective. Cambridge University Press.
Steam Technology and Power Systems
Hills, R. L. (1989). Power from steam: A history of the stationary steam engine. Cambridge University Press.
Kanefsky, J. W. (1979). The diffusion of power technology in British industry, 1760-1870. University of Wisconsin Press.
Cardwell, D. S. L. (1994). The Norton history of technology. W. W. Norton & Company.
Musson, A. E., & Robinson, E. (1969). Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press.
Railway Development and Impact
Simmons, J. (1991). The Victorian railway. Thames and Hudson.
Freeman, M. (1999). Railways and the Victorian imagination. Yale University Press.
Gourvish, T. R. (1980). Railways and the British economy 1830-1914. Macmillan.
Bagwell, P. S. (1974). The railway clearing house in the British economy 1842-1922. Augustus M. Kelley Publishers.
Aldcroft, D. H. (1975). British transport since 1914: An economic history. David & Charles.
Taylor, G. R., & Neu, I. D. (1956). The American railroad network, 1861-1890. Harvard University Press.
Metallurgy and Materials Science
Birch, A. (1967). The economic history of the British iron and steel industry, 1784-1879. Frank Cass & Co.
Hyde, C. K. (1977). Technological change and the British iron industry, 1700-1870. Princeton University Press.
Gale, W. K. V. (1969). The British iron and steel industry: A technical history. David & Charles.
Rolt, L. T. C. (1962). Tools for the job: A short history of machine tools. B. T. Batsford.
Chemical Industry Development
Haber, L. F. (1958). The chemical industry during the nineteenth century: A study of the economic aspect of applied chemistry in Europe and North America. Oxford University Press.
Clow, A., & Clow, N. L. (1952). The chemical revolution: A contribution to social technology. Batchworth Press.
Russell, C. A. (2000). Chemistry, society and environment: A new history of the British chemical industry. Royal Society of Chemistry.
Travis, A. S. (1993). The rainbow makers: The origins of the synthetic dyestuffs industry in Western Europe. Lehigh University Press.
Machine Tools and Precision Manufacturing
Woodbury, R. S. (1972). Studies in the history of machine tools. MIT Press.
Rosenberg, N. (1976). Perspectives on technology. Cambridge University Press.
Hounshell, D. A. (1984). From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932: The development of manufacturing technology in the United States. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Thomson, R. (2009). Structures of change in the mechanical age: Technological innovation in the United States, 1790-1865. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Technology Transfer and International Diffusion
Jeremy, D. J. (1981). Transatlantic industrial revolution: The diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s. MIT Press.
Harris, J. R. (1998). Industrial espionage and technology transfer: Britain and France in the eighteenth century. Ashgate Publishing.
Musson, A. E. (1972). Science, technology, and economic growth in the eighteenth century. Methuen & Co.
Henderson, W. O. (1954). Britain and industrial Europe, 1750-1870: Studies in British influence on the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe. Leicester University Press.
Economic and Financial Aspects
Feinstein, C. H., & Pollard, S. (Eds.). (1988). Studies in capital formation in the United Kingdom, 1750-1920. Oxford University Press.
Cottrell, P. L. (1980). Industrial finance, 1830-1914: The finance and organization of English manufacturing industry. Methuen.
Reed, M. C. (1975). Investment in railways in Britain, 1820-1844: A study in the development of the capital market. Oxford University Press.
Michie, R. C. (1999). The London Stock Exchange: A history. Oxford University Press.
Social and Labor History
Thompson, E. P. (1963). The making of the English working class. Victor Gollancz.
Hobsbawm, E. J. (1964). Labouring men: Studies in the history of labour. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Rule, J. (1986). The labouring classes in early industrial England, 1750-1850. Longman.
Berg, M. (1985). The age of manufactures: Industry, innovation and work in Britain, 1700-1820. Fontana Press.
Urban Development and Infrastructure
Dyos, H. J., & Wolff, M. (Eds.). (1973). The Victorian city: Images and realities. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Wohl, A. S. (1983). Endangered lives: Public health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press.
Kellett, J. R. (1969). The impact of railways on Victorian cities. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Briggs, A. (1963). Victorian cities. Odhams Press.
Environmental History
Thorsheim, P. (2006). Inventing pollution: Coal, smoke, and culture in Britain since 1800. Ohio University Press.
Cipolla, C. M. (1962). The economic history of world population. Penguin Books.
Williams, M. (2003). Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis. University of Chicago Press.
Communication and Information Systems
Standage, T. (1998). The Victorian Internet: The remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century’s on-line pioneers. Walker & Company.
Kieve, J. L. (1973). The electric telegraph: A social and economic history. David & Charles.
Eisenstein, E. L. (1979). The printing press as an agent of change: Communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe. Cambridge University Press.
Primary Sources and Contemporary Accounts
Babbage, C. (1832). On the economy of machinery and manufactures. Charles Knight. [Reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2009]
Ure, A. (1835). The philosophy of manufactures: Or, an exposition of the scientific, moral, and commercial economy of the factory system of Great Britain. Charles Knight. [Reprinted by Frank Cass, 1967]
Liebig, J. von. (1840). Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology. Taylor and Walton. [Various modern reprints available]
Engels, F. (1845). The condition of the working class in England. Otto Wigand. [Multiple modern editions available]
Parliamentary Papers. (1833). Factory Inquiry Commission Report. House of Commons.
Parliamentary Papers. (1842). Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (Edwin Chadwick). House of Commons.
Stephenson, R. (1838). Report on atmospheric railways. John Weale.
Specialized Studies on Innovation Dynamics
Rosenberg, N. (1982). Inside the black box: Technology and economics. Cambridge University Press.
David, P. A. (1985). Clio and the economics of QWERTY. American Economic Review, 75(2), 332-337.
Arthur, W. B. (1989). Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events. Economic Journal, 99(394), 116-131.
Basalla, G. (1988). The evolution of technology. Cambridge University Press.
Regional and Comparative Studies
Hudson, P. (1992). The Industrial Revolution. Edward Arnold.
Cameron, R., & Neal, L. (2003). A concise economic history of the world: From Paleolithic times to the present (4th ed.). Oxford University Press.
O’Brien, P., & Keyder, Ç. (1978). Economic growth in Britain and France 1780-1914: Two paths to the twentieth century. George Allen & Unwin.
Pollard, S. (1981). Peaceful conquest: The industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970. Oxford University Press.
Methodological and Theoretical Works
Dosi, G. (1982). Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change. Research Policy, 11(3), 147-162.
Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1982). An evolutionary theory of economic change. Harvard University Press.
Bijker, W. E., Hughes, T. P., & Pinch, T. J. (Eds.). (1987). The social construction of technological systems: New directions in the sociology and history of technology. MIT Press.
Hughes, T. P. (1983). Networks of power: Electrification in Western society, 1880-1930. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Recent Scholarship and Synthesis
Crafts, N. F. R. (1985). British economic growth during the Industrial Revolution. Oxford University Press.
Broadberry, S., Campbell, B. M. S., Klein, A., Overton, M., & van Leeuwen, B. (2015). British economic growth, 1270-1870. Cambridge University Press.
Griffin, E. (2013). Liberty’s dawn: A people’s history of the Industrial Revolution. Yale University Press.
Parthasarathi, P. (2011). Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not: Global economic divergence, 1600-1850. Cambridge University Press.
Casino Phase
Related Publications and Sources
Primary Historical Sources (1840-1848 Period)
Babbage, C. (1846). Thoughts on the principles of taxation with reference to a property tax and its exceptions. John Murray.
The Economist. (1843-1848). Weekly issues covering railway speculation and financial markets. James Wilson, Editor.
Greg, W. R. (1842). Not over-production, but deficient consumption, the source of our suffering. James Ridgway.
Herapath, J. (1840-1848). Herapath’s Railway and Commercial Journal. Weekly publication on railway developments.
Hudson, G. (1845, March 15). Speech to shareholders of the York and North Midland Railway Company. Railway Times.
The Railway Times. (1840-1848). Weekly publication covering railway investment and development.
Smith, A. (1848). The bubble of the age: Or, the fallacies of railway investment, railway policy, and railway reform. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
Stephenson, R. (1847). Report on the atmospheric system of railway propulsion. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
Tooke, T. (1848). A history of prices and of the state of the circulation from 1839 to 1847 inclusive. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
The Times. (1840-1848). Daily coverage of railway developments and financial markets.
Modern Academic Sources
Aldcroft, D. H. (1968). The railway interest: Its organisation and influence 1839-1914. Leicester University Press.
Arnold, A. J., & McCartney, S. (2004). George Hudson: The rise and fall of the railway king. Business History, 46(3), 367-388.
Bagwell, P. S. (1974). The railway clearing house in the British economy, 1842-1922. Augustus M. Kelley.
Broadbridge, S. A. (1970). Studies in railway expansion and the capital market in England 1825-1873. Frank Cass.
Campbell, G., & Turner, J. D. (2012). Substitutes for legal protection: Corporate governance and dividends in Victorian Britain. The Economic History Review, 65(2), 557-579.
Chancellor, E. (1999). Devil take the hindmost: A history of financial speculation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Crafts, N. (2004). Steam as a general purpose technology: A growth accounting perspective. The Economic Journal, 114(495), 338-351.
Freeman, M. J. (1999). Railways and the Victorian imagination. Yale University Press.
Galbraith, J. K. (1993). A short history of financial euphoria. Whittle Books.
Gourvish, T. R. (1980). Railways and the British economy, 1830-1914. Macmillan.
Technological and Economic History
Carlson, W. B. (2013). Innovation as a social process: Elihu Thomson and the rise of General Electric. Cambridge University Press.
David, P. A. (1985). Clio and the economics of QWERTY. The American Economic Review, 75(2), 332-337.
Freeman, C., & Louçã, F. (2001). As time goes by: From the industrial revolutions to the information revolution. Oxford University Press.
Mokyr, J. (1990). The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress. Oxford University Press.
Perez, C. (2002). Technological revolutions and financial capital: The dynamics of bubbles and golden ages. Edward Elgar.
Rosenberg, N. (1982). Inside the black box: Technology and economics. Cambridge University Press.
Schumpeter, J. A. (1942). Capitalism, socialism and democracy. Harper & Brothers.
Railway History and Engineering
Addyman, J. (2017). The Mania: The remarkable story of the railway revolution. Head of Zeus.
Biddle, G. (2003). Victorian railway technology. Tempus.
Carter, O. (2017). An illustrated history of railway signalling. Pen and Sword Transport.
Chrimes, M. (2008). A history of capital works management on Britain’s railways. Thomas Telford.
Day, J. R. (1999). The story of the Royal Scot: A famous locomotive class. Atlantic Transport Publishers.
Ellis, C. H. (1958). British railway history: An outline from the accession of William IV to the nationalisation of railways, 1830-1876. George Allen & Unwin.
Faith, N. (1990). The world the railways made. Carroll & Graf.
Helps, A. (1847). The life and labours of Mr. Brassey, 1805-1870. Bell and Daldy.
Rolt, L. T. C. (1957). Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Longmans, Green.
Simmons, J. (1978). The railway in England and Wales, 1830-1914. Leicester University Press.
Financial History and Speculation
Ashton, T. S. (1959). Economic fluctuations in England, 1700-1800. Oxford University Press.
Boot, H. M. (1999). The commercial crisis of 1847. Hull University Press.
Clapham, J. H. (1944). The Bank of England: A history (Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press.
Evans, D. M. (1849). The commercial crisis of 1847-1848. Letts, Son & Steer.
Hunt, B. C. (1936). The development of the business corporation in England, 1800-1867. Harvard University Press.
Jenks, L. H. (1927). The migration of British capital to 1875. Alfred A. Knopf.
Kindleberger, C. P., & Aliber, R. Z. (2011). Manias, panics and crashes: A history of financial crises (6th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
Morgan, E. V., & Thomas, W. A. (1962). The stock exchange: Its history and functions. Elek Books.
Powell, E. T. (1915). The evolution of the money market (1385-1915). Financial News.
Reed, M. C. (1975). Investment in railways in Britain, 1820-1844. Oxford University Press.
Industrial and Social History
Briggs, A. (1959). The age of improvement, 1783-1867. Longmans.
Coleman, D. C. (1977). The economy of England, 1450-1750. Oxford University Press.
Engels, F. (1845). The condition of the working class in England. Otto Wigand.
Halevy, E. (1924). A history of the English people in 1841-1852. Ernest Benn.
Hammond, J. L., & Hammond, B. (1919). The town labourer, 1760-1832. Longmans, Green.
Mathias, P. (1969). The first industrial nation: An economic history of Britain, 1700-1914. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Pollard, S. (1965). The genesis of modern management. Edward Arnold.
Thompson, E. P. (1963). The making of the English working class. Victor Gollancz.
Contemporary Analysis and Theory
Arrighi, G. (1994). The long twentieth century: Money, power, and the origins of our times. Verso.
Braudel, F. (1984). Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century (3 vols.). Harper & Row.
Krugman, P. (2009). The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008. W. W. Norton.
Minsky, H. P. (1986). Stabilizing an unstable economy. Yale University Press.
Polanyi, K. (1944). The great transformation: The political and economic origins of our time. Farrar & Rinehart.
Reinhart, C. M., & Rogoff, K. S. (2009). This time is different: Eight centuries of financial folly. Princeton University Press.
Shiller, R. J. (2000). Irrational exuberance. Princeton University Press.
Specialized Studies
Bagwell, P. S. (1968). The railway clearing house in the British economy, 1842-1922. Augustus M. Kelley.
Hawke, G. R. (1970). Railways and economic growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870. Oxford University Press.
Irving, R. J. (1976). The North Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1914. Leicester University Press.
Kellett, J. R. (1969). The impact of railways on Victorian cities. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Reed, M. C. (1969). Railways in the Victorian economy. David & Charles.
Robbins, M. (1962). The railway age. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Simmons, J. (1991). The Victorian railway. Thames and Hudson.
Ville, S. (1990). Transport and the development of the European economy, 1750-1918. Macmillan.
Biographies and Memoirs
Helps, A. (1872). Life and labours of Mr. Brassey. Bell and Daldy.
Rolt, L. T. C. (1957). George and Robert Stephenson: The railway revolution. Longmans, Green.
Smiles, S. (1857). The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. John Murray.
Smiles, S. (1862). Lives of the engineers (5 vols.). John Murray.
Warren, J. G. H. (1971). A century of locomotive building by Robert Stephenson & Co.. David & Charles.
Government Publications and Parliamentary Papers
House of Commons. (1840). Report from the Select Committee on Railway Communication. Parliamentary Papers.
House of Commons. (1844). Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the merits of the atmospheric system of railway propulsion. Parliamentary Papers.
House of Commons. (1846). Reports from the Select Committee on Railway Acts Enactments. Parliamentary Papers.
House of Commons. (1847). Report from the Select Committee on Commercial Distress. Parliamentary Papers.
House of Commons. (1849). Report from the Select Committee on the Audit of Railway Accounts. Parliamentary Papers.
The list includes:
Primary historical sources from the 1840-1848 period
Modern academic sources on the topics
Technological and economic history works
Railway history and engineering publications
Financial history and speculation studies
Industrial and social history sources
Contemporary analysis and theory
Specialized studies
Biographies and memoirs
Government publications and Parliamentary papers
Deployment Period
Contemporary Publications Related to Second Technology Cycle Deployment Period (1850-1857)
Economic and Industrial Theory
Babbage, C. (1851). The exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England. John Murray.
Banfield, T. C. (1856). Industry of the Rhine (2 vols.). Charles Knight & Co.
McCulloch, J. R. (1854). A dictionary, practical, theoretical, and historical, of commerce and commercial navigation. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Mill, J. S. (1848). Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy. John W. Parker. [Foundational work on industrial economy]
Porter, G. R. (1851). The progress of the nation, in its various social and economical relations, from the beginning of the nineteenth century (3rd ed.). John Murray.
Railway Industry and Transportation Development
Braithwaite, F. (1854). On railway curves and earthworks. John Weale.
Great Western Railway Company. (1850-1857). Half-yearly reports to shareholders [Semi-annual series]. Great Western Railway.
Head, F. B. (1851). Stokers and pokers; or, The London and North-Western Railway. John Murray.
London and North Western Railway. (1850-1857). Reports and accounts [Annual series]. London and North Western Railway.
Measom, G. (1852). The official illustrated guide to the Great Northern Railway. Griffin, Bohn, and Company.
Parliamentary Papers. (1852). Report of the select committee on railway and canal bills. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Railway Chronicle. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. London: Railway Chronicle Office.
Railway Record. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. London: Railway Record Office.
Semmens, P. W. M. (1854). Observations on the construction and working of railways. John Weale.
Whishaw, F. (1850). The railways of Great Britain and Ireland practically described and illustrated (2nd ed.). John Weale.
Iron Industry and Early Metallurgy
Fairbairn, W. (1854). On the application of cast and wrought iron to building purposes. John Weale.
Head, F. B. (1850). A fortnight in Ireland. [Contains observations on Irish iron industry]. John Murray.
Mushet, D. (1856). Papers on iron and steel, practical and experimental. John Weale.
Parliamentary Papers. (1854). Report on the iron trade of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Percy, J. (1856). Metallurgy: The art of extracting metals from their ores (Vol. 1). John Murray.
Scrivenor, H. (1854). The iron trade of Great Britain. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 and International Technology
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. (1851). Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue (3 vols.). Spicer Brothers.
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. (1852). Reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided (4 vols.). William Clowes and Sons.
Hunt, R. (1851). A popular account of the Great Exhibition. Spicer Brothers.
Mayhew, H. (1851). 1851; or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family. David Bogue.
Parliamentary Papers. (1852). First report of the commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Tallis, J. (1851). Tallis’s history and description of the Crystal Palace and the Exhibition of the World’s Industry in 1851 (3 vols.). John Tallis and Company.
Wyatt, M. D. (1851). The industrial arts of the nineteenth century at the Great Exhibition, MDCCCLI (2 vols.). Day and Son.
Engineering and Technical Development
Buchanan, R. (1856). A treatise on the steam engine in its application to mines, mills, steam navigation, and railways. John Weale.
Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal. (1850-1857). [Monthly periodical]. London: John Weale.
Institution of Civil Engineers. (1850-1857). Minutes of proceedings [Annual volumes]. Institution of Civil Engineers.
Mechanics’ Magazine. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. London: Robertson, Brooman, and Co.
Practical Mechanics’ Journal. (1850-1857). [Monthly periodical]. London: Robertson and Co.
Rankine, W. J. M. (1856). Applied mechanics. Charles Griffin and Company.
Tredgold, T. (1850). The steam engine: Its invention and progressive improvement (2nd ed.). John Weale.
Business, Finance, and Commercial Development
Bankers’ Magazine, The. (1850-1857). [Monthly periodical]. London: Groombridge and Sons.
Commercial History and Review. (1850-1857). [Annual publication]. London: Economist Office.
Economist, The. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. London: James Wilson.
Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. (1850-1857). [Monthly periodical]. New York: Freeman Hunt.
McCulloch, J. R. (1856). The commercial dictionary: A practical manual of commerce and commercial law. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.
Government Reports and Official Publications
Board of Trade. (1850-1857). Railway returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland [Annual series]. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Census of Great Britain. (1851). Population tables I. Numbers of the inhabitants (2 vols.). Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Census of Great Britain. (1852-1853). Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious worship and education [Multiple volumes]. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Parliamentary Papers. (1850). Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the application of iron to railway structures. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Parliamentary Papers. (1854). Report on railway communication with India. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
U.S. Patent Office. (1850-1857). Annual reports of the Commissioner of Patents [Annual series]. A. Boyd Hamilton.
Industrial Surveys and Regional Studies
Baines, E. (1852). The woollen manufacture of England. Fisher, Son, & Co.
Cooke Taylor, W. (1851). Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire (2nd ed.). Duncan and Malcolm.
Faucher, L. (1854). Manchester in 1844: Its present condition and future prospects. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Head, G. (1851). A home tour through the manufacturing districts of England in the summer of 1835. John Murray.
Parliamentary Papers. (1854). Report on the sanitary condition of the manufacturing districts. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Agricultural and Rural Development
Caird, J. (1851). English agriculture in 1850-51. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. (1850-1857). [Annual periodical]. London: John Murray.
Loudon, J. C. (1850). An encyclopædia of agriculture (5th ed.). Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
International Development and Comparative Studies
Banfield, T. C. (1848). Industry of the Rhine: Series I: Agriculture. Charles Knight & Co.
Bowring, J. (1854). Report on the Prussian commercial union. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Michel Chevalier. (1852). Letters on North America (2 vols.). Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Parliamentary Papers. (1854). Reports on the trade and manufactures of the Zollverein. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Labor and Social Conditions
Gaskell, P. (1833). The manufacturing population of England [Reprinted 1851]. Baldwin and Cradock.
Kay, J. P. (1850). The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester (2nd ed.). James Ridgway.
Parliamentary Papers. (1852-1853). Reports of inspectors of factories [Annual series]. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Steam Power and Mechanical Innovation
Buchanan, R. (1851). Practical essays on mill work and other machinery (3rd ed.). John Weale.
Farey, J. (1851). A treatise on the steam engine, historical, practical, and descriptive. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.
Stuart, R. (1851). A descriptive history of the steam engine. John Knight and Henry Lacey.
Tredgold, T. (1851). Principles of the warming and ventilation of buildings. John Weale.
Transportation and Infrastructure
Grahame, T. (1854). Treatise on internal intercourse and communication in civilized countries. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
MacNeill, J. (1851). A treatise on railway curves and the location of railways. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Parliamentary Papers. (1851). Report on metropolitan communications. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Mining and Resource Development
Hunt, R. (1854). British mining: A treatise on the history and future prospects of metalliferous mines in the United Kingdom. Crosby Lockwood and Co.
Mining Journal. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. London: Mining Journal Office.
Parliamentary Papers. (1854). Report on accidents in mines. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Speeches and Contemporary Commentary
Bright, J. (1851, December 3). Speech on commercial policy and free trade. [Speech at Manchester]. Manchester Guardian.
Cobden, R. (1850, January 15). Address on the benefits of free trade. [Speech to Manchester Chamber of Commerce]. Manchester Chamber of Commerce Proceedings.
Gladstone, W. E. (1853, April 18). Budget speech on commercial and financial policy. [Parliamentary speech]. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 3rd series, 126, 729-804.
Peel, R. (1850, June 25). Last speech on commercial policy. [Parliamentary speech]. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 3rd series, 112, 554-579.
Prince Albert. (1851, May 1). Address at the opening of the Great Exhibition. [Speech at Crystal Palace]. The Times.
Corporate and Industrial Reports
East India Company. (1850-1857). Annual reports on railway construction in India [Annual series]. East India House.
Grand Junction Railway Company. (1850). Final report to shareholders. Grand Junction Railway.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway. (1850-1857). Annual reports [Annual series]. Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
International Journals and Periodicals
Journal des Chemins de Fer. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal.
Polytechnisches Journal. (1850-1857). [Periodical]. Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta’scher Verlag.
Scientific American. (1850-1857). [Weekly periodical]. New York: Munn & Company.
Zeitschrift für Bauwesen. (1851-1857). [Periodical]. Berlin: Ernst & Korn.
Note on Accessing Historical Sources for 1850-1857
The deployment period sources are particularly rich due to:
– The Great Exhibition of 1851 generating extensive documentation
– Parliamentary investigations into railway development
– Early industrial surveys and economic studies
– Emergence of specialized technical and trade periodicals
Many of these publications are available through:
– British Library digital collections
– HathiTrust Digital Library
– Internet Archive
– Parliamentary Papers online
– Google Books
– National archives of respective countries
– University special collections focusing on industrial history
The Great Exhibition materials, in particular, provide comprehensive documentation of technological development during this crucial deployment period.
Deployment Maturity phase
Contemporary Publications Related to Second Technology Cycle Development (1857-1873)
Economic and Industrial Theory
Bagehot, W. (1873). Lombard Street: A description of the money market. Henry S. King & Co.
Cairnes, J. E. (1874). Some leading principles of political economy newly expounded. Macmillan. [Written 1870-1873]
Marx, K. (1867). Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie [Capital: A critique of political economy] (Vol. 1). Verlag von Otto Meisner.
Mill, J. S. (1871). Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (7th ed.). Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. [Revised edition with updates on industrial development]
Railway Industry and Transportation
Chandler, H. (1859). Report on the construction of the Pacific Railroad. Government Printing Office.
Great Western Railway Company. (1858-1873). Annual reports to shareholders [Annual series]. Great Western Railway.
Jervis, J. B. (1861). Railway property: A treatise on the construction and management of railways. Phinney, Blakeman & Mason.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. (1857-1873). Annual reports [Annual series]. Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Poor, H. V. (1860). History of the railroads and canals of the United States. John H. Schultz & Co.
Poor, H. V. (1868). Manual of the railroads of the United States for 1868-69. H. V. & H. W. Poor.
Railway Times. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Railway Times Office.
U.S. House of Representatives. (1869). Report on the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. Government Printing Office.
Wellington, A. M. (1872). The economic theory of railway location. John Wiley & Sons.
Steel, Iron, and Metallurgy
Bessemer, H. (1870). On the manufacture of malleable iron and steel without fuel. Journal of the Society of Arts, 18, 23-34.
Hunt, R. (1871). British mining: A treatise on the history, discovery, practical development, and future prospects of metalliferous mines in the United Kingdom. Crosby Lockwood and Co.
Iron and Coal Trades Review. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Iron and Coal Trades Review.
Siemens, C. W. (1868). On the regenerative gas furnace as applied to the manufacture of cast steel. Journal of the Chemical Society, 21, 279-295.
Truran, W. (1862). The iron manufacture of Great Britain theoretically and practically considered. E. & F. N. Spon.
Engineering and Technology
Engineer, The. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Morgan Brothers.
Engineering. (1866-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Engineering.
Institution of Civil Engineers. (1857-1873). Minutes of proceedings [Annual volumes]. Institution of Civil Engineers.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (1857-1873). Proceedings [Annual volumes]. Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Rankine, W. J. M. (1859). A manual of the steam engine and other prime movers. Charles Griffin and Company.
Scientific American. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. New York: Munn & Company.
Whitworth, J. (1865). Report on the machinery of the United States of America. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode.
Business and Finance
Bankers’ Magazine, The. (1857-1873). [Monthly periodical]. London: Groombridge and Sons.
Commercial and Financial Chronicle. (1865-1873). [Weekly periodical]. New York: William B. Dana Company.
Economist, The. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: James Wilson.
Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. (1857-1873). [Monthly periodical]. New York: Freeman Hunt.
Government Reports and Official Publications
Board of Trade. (1857-1873). Railway returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland [Annual series]. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. (1870-1873). Annual reports on the statistics of labor [Annual series]. Wright & Potter.
Parliamentary Papers. (1857-1873). Reports from select committees on railway communication [Various volumes]. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
U.S. Bureau of Statistics. (1872). Statistical abstract of the United States. Government Printing Office.
U.S. Census Office. (1872). Ninth census of the United States: Volume III, The statistics of the wealth and industry of the United States. Government Printing Office.
U.S. Department of the Treasury. (1857-1873). Annual reports of the Secretary of the Treasury [Annual series]. Government Printing Office.
Industrial and Manufacturing
American Journal of Science and Arts. (1857-1873). [Quarterly periodical]. New Haven: Dana & Company.
Journal of the Franklin Institute. (1857-1873). [Monthly periodical]. Philadelphia: Franklin Institute.
Practical Mechanics’ Journal. (1857-1873). [Monthly periodical]. London: Kent & Co.
Ure, A. (1861). The cotton manufacture of Great Britain (2nd ed.). H. G. Bohn.
Agricultural and Technological Development
Country Gentleman. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. Albany: Luther Tucker & Son.
Prairie Farmer. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. Chicago: Prairie Farmer Company.
U.S. Department of Agriculture. (1862-1873). Annual reports of the Commissioner of Agriculture [Annual series]. Government Printing Office.
International Exhibitions and Technology Transfer
International Exhibition of 1862. (1863). Reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty-six classes into which the exhibition was divided. William Clowes and Sons.
Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867. (1868). Reports of the United States commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867. Government Printing Office.
Labor and Social Issues
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. (1870). First annual report. Wright & Potter.
Mayhew, H. (1861-1862). London labour and the London poor (4 vols.). Griffin, Bohn, and Company.
Speeches and Addresses
Bessemer, H. (1865, May 24). Address on the manufacture of iron and steel. [Speech to the Institution of Civil Engineers]. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 24, 181-208.
Bright, J. (1868, October 29). Speech on free trade and industrial progress. [Speech at Birmingham]. Birmingham Daily Post.
Carnegie, A. (1872, April 2). Address on the future of American industry. [Speech to the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce]. Pittsburgh Commercial.
Gladstone, W. E. (1860, February 10). Budget speech on commercial policy. [Parliamentary speech]. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 3rd series, 156, 804-858.
Technical Journals and Periodicals
American Artisan. (1864-1873). [Weekly periodical]. New York: American Artisan Company.
Mechanics’ Magazine. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Robertson, Brooman, and Co.
Mining Journal. (1857-1873). [Weekly periodical]. London: Mining Journal Office.
Corporate and Industrial Reports
Cockerill Company. (1857-1873). Annual reports [Annual series]. Seraing: Cockerill Company.
Krupp Works. (1860-1873). Annual production reports [Annual series]. Essen: Krupp Works.
Standard Oil Company. (1870-1873). Annual reports [Annual series]. Cleveland: Standard Oil Company.
Note on Accessing Historical Sources
Many of these publications are available in digital format through:
– HathiTrust Digital Library (hathitrust.org )
– Internet Archive (<https: archive.org >)
– Google Books (books.google.com)
– JSTOR (for academic articles)
– National libraries and archives of respective countries
– University library special collections