Most Wonderful Machine
Book Details
Author(s)Judith A. McGaw
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN / ASIN0691006253
ISBN-139780691006253
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,744,599
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of a Melville short story views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe, calling it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting a similar nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, examined here by Judith McGaw.

