Phmoreno

Wikinality

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WikiProject Engineering

This user is a participant in WikiProject Economics.

Welcome to my user page.

My background is chemical engineering and information technology. My main interests are historical economics, energy and natural resources. I am an avid reader of economic history and the history of technology.

My major Wikipedia contributions include creation of:

• Productivity improving technologies (historical)
• Ayres-Warr model

I also contributed extensively to sections of:

• Electrification
• Mechanization
• Paper machine
• Kondratiev wave
• Mass production
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Economic stagnation
• American system of manufacturing
• Assembly line
• Agricultural productivity
• Continuous production
• Line shaft
• Factory system

A few short projects were parts of:

• 1856 Last Island hurricane
• Deflation
• Long depression
• Mechanized agriculture
• Oliver Evans
• Various steam power articles: Engine efficiency, Steam engine, Watt steam engine, Cogeneration
• Economic collapse

Current project

I will be working on steam engine in the next few weeks. After that I will add a steamboat section to riverboat.

Planned project

I am considering rewriting Technological and industrial history of the United States because it ties in with a lot of reading I've done, but also I will be giving a public lecture on the topic in a few months.

News flash!

Joseph Stiglitz wrote an article for Vanity Fair saying that agricultural productivity was the cause of the Great Depression. Wikipedia readers of Causes of the Great Depression#Productivity shock will find this as nothing new. The related articles Kondratiev wave and Productivity improving technologies (historical) may provide some additional information.