Background
Hounshell, David Allen was born on October 18, 1950 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Raymond and Helen Elizabeth Hounshell.
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(From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States * * ) Author: David A. Hounshell Oct-1985
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society) by Hounshell, David (1985) Paperback
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society) by Hounshell, Professor David (1984) Hardcover
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society)
(In his richly illustrated 'From the American System of Ma...)
In his richly illustrated 'From the American System of Mass Production, David Hounshell explores the development of the 'American system' of manufacturing in the half century before the Civil War and the transition of this system into the 'mass production' of the 20th century. Previous writers on the American system have implied or argued directly that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by antebellum arms makers, Hounshell argues, however, drawing upon the extensive business and manufacturing records of leading American firms...including Singer Manufacturing, McCormick Harvesting Machinery Co., Brown & Share Manufacturing, Pope Manufacturing, and Ford Motor Com...that the diffusion of arms production technology was neither as fast nor as smooth as has been assumed. Both the expression 'mass production' and the technology was that lay behind it were developments of the 20th C, attributable in large part to the Ford Motor Co. Hounshell explores the important role of individuals in the diffusion and development of production technology and the central place of marketing strategy in the success of selected American manufactures. While Ford Motor company was the seebed of the assembly line revolution, General Motors initiated the new era of annual model change. With the new marketing strategy, the technology of 'the changeover' became of paramount importance. Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford learned this lesson with the change from the Model T to the Model A and then to the V-8 in 1932.
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society)
(Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 1985. ...)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 1985. Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Paperback Edition, 5th Printing. A GOOD, clean, tight copy sans rips/tears, stains or discoloration. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. "David A. Hounshell's widely acclaimed history explores the American "genius for mass production" and traces its origins in the nineteenth-century "American system" of manufacture. Previous writers on the American system have argued that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by armsmakers before the Civil War. Drawing upon the extensive business and manufacturing records of leading American firms, Hounshell demonstrates that the diffusion of arms production technology was neither as fast nor as smooth as had been assumed. Exploring the manufacture of sewing machines and furniture, bicycles and reapers, he shows that both the expresssion "mass production" and the technology that lay behind it were developments of the twentieth century, attributable in large part to the Ford Motor Company"
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David Allen Hounshell
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1972. Master of Arts, University Delaware, Newark, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University Delaware, Newark, 1978.
Career
Research assistant Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1973—1974, pre-doctoral fellow, 1976—1977. Assistant professor history Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, 1977—1979, University Delaware, 1979—1984, associate professor history, 1984—1988, professor history, 1988—1991. Henry R. Luce professor technical and social change Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1991—1999.
Visiting professor Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1991, Chalmers University of Technology, Gotheburg, Sweden, 1998. David M. Roderick professor technical and social change Carnegie Mellon University, since 1999. Curator technical Hagley Museum and Library., Wilmington, Delaware, 1979—1985, senior scholar, 1986—1987.
Marvin Bower fellow Harvard Business School, Boston, 1987—1988. Vice president, president-elect Society History Technology, 2001—2002, president, 2003—2004.
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Works
book
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society)
(In his richly illustrated 'From the American System of Ma...)
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society)
(Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 1985. ...)
- From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manuf
- (From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States * * ) Author: David A. Hounshell Oct-1985
- From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society) by Hounshell, David (1985) Paperback
- From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society) by Hounshell, Professor David (1984) Hardcover
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Studies in Industry and Society)
Membership
President, board directors 1st United Methodist Church Pittsburgh, 2000—2002. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Browder J. Thompson Memorial prize 1978), Society Industrial Archeology, Business History Conference (member, board directors 1989-1991, Harold F. Williamson medal 1992, Williamson medal), American History Association, History Science Society (member, editorial board journal ISIS 1987-1989), Society History Technology (president 2003-2004, member executive council 1982-1983, 1987-1988, since 2000, Leonardo da Vinci medal 2007).
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Married Nancy Burr Eddy, October 20, 1973. Children: Jennie Burr, Bernard Blakeman, Eric Tapken.
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American
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1972
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1978
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1973 - 1974
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1977 - 1979
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1979 - 1984
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1991 - 1999
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1991
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1999