Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION Science and Commerce: Scenes from a Marriage -- CHAPTER ONE Concrete Testing: The Academics at Work -- CHAPTER TWO Science on Site: The Field-Testing and Regulation of Concrete Construction -- CHAPTER THREE Science and the “Fair Deal�: Standards, Specifications, and Commercial Ambition -- CHAPTER FOUR The Business of Building: Technological and Managerial Techniques in Concrete Construction -- CHAPTER FIVE What “Modern� Meant Reinforced Concrete and the Social History of Functionalist Design -- Conclusion -- Notes
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Scholarly & Professional Johns Hopkins University Press
