Technology on the Frontier

Mining in Old Ontario

By Dianne Newell
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843287, 224 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857062, 224 pages, January 1986
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Table of contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

List of Tables

Preface

Part I: Introduction

1. The Problem

Part II: The 19th-Century Revolution in Mining

2. The Innovations

3. The Diffusion Mechanisms

Part III: Regional Applications in a Canadian Setting,
1840-1890

4. Upper Great Lakes District 5. Southeastern District

6. Western Peninsula District Part IV: Conclusion

7. Technological Change in a New and Developing Country

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Indexes

Description

This book tells about a frontier region in economic transition. Its
focus is the successful adoption of new technology to the particular
economic and engineering circumstances associated with the newness or
frontier nature of Ontario mining to 1890.