Industrialization

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Introductory summation

This a broad phenomenon having to do with mass production and the bringing of innovation to scale. There is also a feedback effect upon innovation itself, and the means of its development. Industrialization is different in emphasis from industry, which we are handling more in terms of material specifics, largely as drawn from specific patent data.

Factors such as World War I are exceedingly pertinent to industrialization.

Among other things, this process leaps forward as technological principles are considered to be reliably known. The fixed-wing airplane, for instance, is massively and industrially produced largely after its practical or general superiority over various alternatives is established.

Relative to individual inventors, industry may be relevant either to their professional backgrounds or to the later bringing to scale of their more experimental ventures. Patent FR-1910-415214, of Louis Blériot, for instance, makes specific reference to the industrial products comporting with the application of the design elements inherent to the invention. This all has to do with mass-production.

We have referred to “pre-corporate dynamism” as a realm of intrigue largely pre-dating these later developments. The earlier work is “pre-paradigmatic” in so far as Industrialization may be treated as a paradigm. The characterization of collaborative and other co-influencing, between multiple inventors, over time, as a per se “social network” may be more apt when applied to the earlier period.

Work has been done on the phenomena of industrialization, as such. Pertinent concepts include atelier, workshop, communities of practice, apprenticeships, working groups, groupe industriel, and industry.

Note: This word, as a semi-abstract concept, is of note to us partially in terms of its implications of "scale" and so forth, in connection with the solid implementation of per se innovation. It may stand in contrast to any "academic" or otherwise "cut-off" characteristics of the inventors we are studying. We are predominantly concerned with the aviation industry, that of airplanes, with a healthy interest in that pertaining to LTA as well. Other industrial fields become relevant by way of shared technologies, by way of the diversification of powerful finance, and by the roles played by the military and the state.

This concept is of general pertinence in terms of the per se industrialization of airplane development and construction. From time to time, usually explicated in the phraseology of the patent's title, the invention in question may have explicit applicability to industry or industrial process which are also pertinent beyond aviation and-or aeronautics.

Phenomena of Corporatism and Industrialization

A wildcard having to do with patents per inventor in the context of collaboration

George Holt Thomas, the Director of Aircraft Manufacturing Co. and Managing Director of Airships, Limited, has a fair bulk of patents filed, most of which are filed in collaboration with other inventors. Numerically, this pans out as Thomas being a relatively leading figure, with his corporate affiliations being treated in terms of his occupation, as an individual, with the other inventors being lesser. That his role could be relatively corporatistic, bearing indeed on phenomena of industrialization, but with the chance that the truer innovation resides more with the other inventors, would cast an entirely different light on these numbers.

Operative continuity between specific firms within a corporate context

This sort of thing may indeed have to do with the specifics of industrialization, as such. The specifics came to light via the Westinghouse complex. The existence of subsidiary firms in an international complex may even have more directly to do with proprietary and legally technical necessities than with the development of the aero-engineering principles themselves. The true innovation is still there, but it proceeds within a context of increasing complexity. This angle of data examination came up via a corporate complex playing a modest role relative to our interests, but the principle could be applied intentionally to any corporate complex we have on hand.

Reflections particularly on France

For reflections on any of this, as it pertains to France, see Emmanuel Chadeau and-or Chadeau, Emmanuel, 1985, État, Entreprise & Développement Économique : L’Industrie Aéronautique en France (1900-1940) Thése pour le Doctorat, unpublished version. For a specialized analysis on the transition between small industry, characterized by connection to technical "pioneers", into industry per se, as these phenomena pertain to Great Britain, the publication Bamfourth, Catherine Jill, Abbott, Malcolm, Entrepreneurs of the sky: Case studies on entrepreneurial learning from the early British aviation industry, 2019 is likely of great interest.

See also

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