Researchers:
Peter B. Meyer (pbmeyer at econterms.net) of U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, (cv)
Carol Siri Johnson, of New Jersey Institute of Technology
(cv)
We've scanned the 1871-1885 issues of the journal Transactions of
the American Institute of Mining Engineers. (That's what TAIME stands
for.)
We have a research project to study these systematically and to count and
document articles, word choices, and author histories, in order to
understand the transitions from a decentralized U.S. iron and steel
industry to Big Steel. These links point to resources that are relevant
to the project.
Paper for SSHA
presentation at SSHA, Nov 18, 2007
presentation at APEBH, Feb 14, 2007
presentation for SHOT, Oct 13, 2006
Our list of the authors (MS Word format)
Our biographies of the authors (MS Word format)
Our list of the articles (.xls format) (last updated 19 Feb 2007)
Our partial list of articles in the Engineering and Mining Journal (.xls
format) (last updated 25 Sept 2006)
Latest draft paper
Abstract sent to Economic History Association
PDF files of the journal volumes (7-30 megabytes each):
vol 1,
vol 2,
vol 3,
vol 4,
vol 5,
vol 6,
vol 7,
vol 8,
vol 9,
vol 10,
vol 11,
vol 12,
vol 13,
vol 14
Those were scanned by Digital
Divide Data
wiki of TAIME lingo
Background material:
1859 Lesley book listing all known iron makers in the U.S. then
Weeks Census report of wages in manufacturing before 1881
Carol Siri Johnson's article on pre-discursive iron discussion
Peter B. Meyer's article on technological uncertainty
Carol's paper on the 'steel
bible', May 2007, with some notes from Peter
Pictures for
our presentation