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Booklet here, just started reading Vol 1 of this on a whim and I'm enthralled by its accounts of the oil industry boom.
Do (You) know of any further industrial history books like this?

Depends on whether you want actual knowledge or just fanciful stories in the gilded age setting. Because the former kind of books are written by autists with no sense of aestheticism and the latter by ideological spinsters and hacks.

Concerning the book in the OP, just from skimming her Wiki, one should expect heavy progressive bias. Don't take it as gospel and verify everything. Early progressive women were extra zealous and insufferable.

Humphrey Jennings
Pandaemonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

I've been meaning to read this. Maybe you'd like it

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>Early progressive women were extra zealous and insufferable.
lol they still are

>>24800711 (OP)
Engineering the F-4 Phantom II: Parts into Systems.

>>24800711 (OP)
Not exactly industry, but something that hits a similar itch is Ruskin's Stones of Venice. IDK why but the exploration of a specific civil body's progression hits a similar constructivist itch.