Honoré Blanc
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Honoré Blanc was a French gunsmith and a pioneer of the use of interchangeable parts.[1] By putting unskilled labor to work, Blanc vowed to make 1,000 muskets a year for Napoleon. The French government rejected this pioneering effort.[2] His work is believed to have inspired the later achievements of Eli Whitney. It seems likely that this was the same man whose work Thomas Jefferson took an interest in around 1785 and remembered years later as a Mr "Le Blanc".[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Torsten K.W. Althin (1948). C.E. Johansson 1864–1943, 41.
- ^ Crainer, Stuart. Ten of the Worst Management Decisions Ever Made.
- ^ Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916). English and American Tool Builders. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, pp. 129-130. Reprinted by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, IL, USA. ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7.
[edit] External links
- "Interchangeable Parts". John H. Lienhard. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. 1997. No. 1252. Transcript.
- Massender, James (2002). "No Undue Prejudice": Samuel Colt and the Politics of Uniformity ([dead link] – Scholar search). Canadian Review of American Studies 32 (1).
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