Podcast: A New Nation Relies on Maritime Engineering
Podcast: A New Nation Relies on Maritime Engineering
Historian Emily Murphy joined ASME Techcast to discuss the role that precision gauges and weights and standardized scales helped build a nation at the height of international trade in Salem, Mass.
If you visited Massachusetts’s Salem's waterfront in the late 1700s and early 1800s you would have been impressed by the spirit of inquiry and innovation and its variety of artisans, craftsmen, and workers who labored on the wharf. There were rope makers and blacksmiths, but there were also custom house workers who weighed, measured, and collected the money that financed the new country.
Emily Murphy, curator for Salem Maritime National Historic Site, is a historian who has a long history with the Salem Maritime site and also the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. During her more than three decades of working in the public history field, she has delved into a variety of public records to examine the lives of people who have left few written records behind.
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Emily Murphy, curator for Salem Maritime National Historic Site, is a historian who has a long history with the Salem Maritime site and also the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. During her more than three decades of working in the public history field, she has delved into a variety of public records to examine the lives of people who have left few written records behind.
Listen to more episodes of ASME TechCast on your favorite podcast app:
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