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Currently Closed for the Season - Will Reopen May 26, 2018

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OSHER at Dartmouth Course Features APM

john johnson smJohn Johnson, an industrial historian, will be teaching "Yankee Enterprise," a new course offering featuring the museum.

How did American manufacturing evolve from a handmade, pre-market economy in colonial New England to a machine-made, mass-market economy of the early 20th century? A major stimulus to this evolution was the production of firearms with machine tools in the Connecticut River Valley, where  “armory practice” and interchangeable parts preceded the Civil War. This industrial transition had profound implications as inventors, machinists and managers produced, marketed,and distributed products that took center stage in the emerging global economy. Mechanized production, assembly lines, high wages, low prices, and advertising created an economy of mass consumption.

This course traces the evolution of firearms and sewing machines, as well as bicycles and early motor cars while exploring the question of how Yankee Enterprise still influences the modern world. Participants visit the American Precision Museum home to America's best collection of historic machine tools.  Read more on page 37 in the OSHER Fall Courses 2015.
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American Precision Museum, 196 Main Street, PO Box 679, Windsor, Vermont 05089 | 802.674.5781
Open May 26 – October 31, 2018 10am – 5pm daily