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Discusses the American impact on British industry in the nineteenth century. Way that industry in England recovered due in part to the spread of ideas in America in the engineering industry; Influence which America had on the machine tool trade; Progress in the industry; Rebirth of other trades as a result of the rejuvenation of the machine tool trade; Variation in the pace of change between one branch of engineering and another and between different areas; Problems the industry faced; Implications of American industrial competition for British tariff policy in the early years of the century; Interpretation of British industrial progress.