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

Published:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Physical Description:
vi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:
Reynolds, Terry S.

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Contents:
The engineer in 19th-century America / Terry S. Reynolds -- Engineers are people / John B. Rae -- Turnpike construction in antebellum Virginia / Robert F. Hunter -- Raising and watering a city : Ellis Slyvester 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 -- 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 -- The engineer in 20th-century America / Terry S. Reynolds -- The electrification of America : the system builders / Thomas P. Hughes -- Mirror-image twins : the communities of science and technology in 19th-century America / Edwin Layton. and Local history and national culture : notions on engineering professionalism in America / Bruce Sinclair -- The introduction of the loading coil : George A. Campbell and Michael I. Pupin / James E. Brittain -- Charles F. Kettering and the copper-cooled engine / Stuart W. Leslie -- The scientific mystique in engineering : highway research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 / Bruce E. Seely -- 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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ISBN:
0226710319 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226710310 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226710327 (paper : alk. paper)
9780226710327 (paper : alk. paper)
Related Titles:
Technology and culture
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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