Towards a Global History of Production I:

Machine Tools and the International
Transfer of Industrial Technology

Centre for History and Economics,
King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK

30th – 31st March 2009

A joint project between Bielefeld University,
Cambridge University and Imperial College
under the auspices of the
Centre for History and Economics.

 

 

(c) 2008-09 Centre for History and Economics.

Header image shows Mr. Averbeck of H. J. Averbeck Machinery Company in Covington, Kentucky, and his employees in front of their first workshop. They are presenting one of their first produced shaping machines after foundation in 1900. The Averbeck Machinery Company belonged to the famous machine tool cluster of Cincinnati, Ohio.