Alexander Hamilton's Alternative: Technology Piracy and the Report on Manufactures

Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution

“…The Lunar Society had no more than about a dozen members, met rarely, and some of its meetings were poorly attended (Jones 2009: 86--94 and were more interested in the scientific topics of the day than in their links with industry. Industrialists who joined them saw them as a stairway to social mobility and gentility (Cardwell 1970;Cookson 1994: 154--5;Uglow 2002: 353;Jones 2009: 82--94 (compare Jeremy 1973;Ben--Atar 1995;Harris 1997;Mokyr 1976: 27--8). And while the legend that Benjamin Huntsman's steel--making process was pirated by a Sheffield rival who gained disappointed than in Birmingham' where he 'could not gain any intelligence even of the most common nature', including data on wages (Young 1771: III, 279).…”