| Description |
vi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction by Terry S. Reynolds -- Part I: The Engineer and Engineering in 19th-Century America Overview The engineer in 19th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds -- Background -- Engineers Are People by John B. Rae -- Practice -- Turnpike Construction in Antebellum Virginia by Robert F. Hunter -- Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System by Louis P. Cain -- Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950 by Martin Reuss -- Institutions -- Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech by James E. Brittain and Robert C. McMath, Jr. -- At the Turn of a Screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a Standard American Thread by Bruce Sinclair -- Part II: The Engineer and Engineering in 20th-Century America -- Overview -- The Engineer in 20th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds -- Background -- The Electrification of America: The System Builders by Thomas P. Hughes -- Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-Century America by Edwin Layton -- Practice -- Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America by Bruce Sinclair -- The Introduction of the Loading Coil: George A. Campbell and Michael I. Pupin by James E. Brittain -- Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-cooled Engine by Stuart W. Leslie -- The Scientific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 by Bruce E. Seely -- Institutions -- Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century by Terry S. Reynolds -- Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907-1932 by W. Bernard Carlson -- The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered by Peter Meiksins -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Engineering -- United States -- History.
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Engineers -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Reynolds, Terry S.
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| LC no. |
91019356 |
| ISBN |
0226710319 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226710327 (paper : alk. paper) |
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