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American system of manufactures: a standalone construct

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the nineteenth-century approach to making goods with interchangeable parts, special machines and gauges, seen as a step toward mass production.

In history of technology, American system of manufactures refers to the nineteenth-century approach to making goods with interchangeable parts, special machines and gauges, seen as a step toward mass production. This meaning comes from Hounshell (1985) in From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932.[1]

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  1. Hounshell, D. (1985). From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.56021/9780801829758

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