The Manufactory: Samuel Colt’s Three Years in London
By SALIENT co-investigator Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath I have finally read Priya Satia’s prize-winning history, Empire of Guns, which firmly connects Britain’s industrial revolution to the state’s demand for weapons. Showing how the military as much as markets drove industrial experimentation. It also includes a fascinating nineteenth-century manufacturing story with…