The engineer in America : a historical anthology from technology and culture / edited by Terry S. Reynolds

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ISBN: 9780226710327
Editor: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1991
Descripción Física: 437 p.; 23 cm
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INTRODUCTION / Terry S. Reynolds. * PART I. THE ENGINEER AND ENGINEERING IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA. + OVERVIEW: The engineer in 19th century America / Terry S. Reynolds. + BACKGROUND: Engineers are people / John B. Rae. + PRACTICE: - Turnpike Construcion in Antebellum Virginia / Robert F. Hunter. - Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System / Louis P. Cain. - Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950 / Martin Reuss. + INSTITUTIONS. - Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech / James E. Brittain and Robert C. McMath, Jr. - At the Turn of a Screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a Standard American Thread / Bruce Sinclair. * PART II. THE ENGINEER AND ENGINEERING IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. + OVERVIEW: - The Engineer in 20th Century America / Terry S. Reynolds. + BACKGROUND: - The Electrification of America: The System Builders / Thomas P. Hughes. - Mirror-Image Twins: The Communicties of Science and Technology in 19th Century America / Edwin Layton. - Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America / Bruce Sinclair. - The Introduction of the Loading Coil: George A. Campbell and Michael Pupin / James E. Brittain. - Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-cooled Engine / Stuart W. Leslie. - The Scioentific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 / Bruce E. Seely. + INSTITUTIONS: - Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century / Terry S. Reynolds. - Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907-1932 / W. Bernard Carlson. - The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered / Peter Meiksins.

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INTRODUCTION / Terry S. Reynolds. * PART I. THE ENGINEER AND ENGINEERING IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA. + OVERVIEW: The engineer in 19th century America / Terry S. Reynolds. + BACKGROUND: Engineers are people / John B. Rae. + PRACTICE: - Turnpike Construcion in Antebellum Virginia / Robert F. Hunter. - Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System / Louis P. Cain. - Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950 / Martin Reuss. + INSTITUTIONS. - Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech / James E. Brittain and Robert C. McMath, Jr. - At the Turn of a Screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a Standard American Thread / Bruce Sinclair. * PART II. THE ENGINEER AND ENGINEERING IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA. + OVERVIEW: - The Engineer in 20th Century America / Terry S. Reynolds. + BACKGROUND: - The Electrification of America: The System Builders / Thomas P. Hughes. - Mirror-Image Twins: The Communicties of Science and Technology in 19th Century America / Edwin Layton. - Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America / Bruce Sinclair. - The Introduction of the Loading Coil: George A. Campbell and Michael Pupin / James E. Brittain. - Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-cooled Engine / Stuart W. Leslie. - The Scioentific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 / Bruce E. Seely. + INSTITUTIONS: - Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century / Terry S. Reynolds. - Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907-1932 / W. Bernard Carlson. - The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered / Peter Meiksins.

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