Diesels were more adaptable, however, ensuring that fewer designs could serve a wider variety of applications. This versatility, combined with high research and development costs, meant that diesels could be most efficiently produced in large batches to standardized designs. | FROM STEAM TO DIESEL PRINCETON STUDIES IN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SERIES EDITOR DAVID HOUNSHELL Before the Computer Mechanical Information Processing in the United States 1865-1956 James W Cortada Politics and Industrialization Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia Colleen A. .
