Author: Bruce SinclairPublisher: Published for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980
Author: Bruce SinclairPublisher: Published for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980
Author: Bruce SinclairPublisher: Published for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1880 To 1915...
Author: Frederick Remsen HuttonPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314883619
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
A History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1880 to 1915
Author: Frederick Remsen HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers From 1880 to 1915
Author: Frederick Remsen HuttonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021099594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This detailed history of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers offers a fascinating look at the development of mechanical engineering in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With rich detail and engaging storytelling, A History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is an informative and entertaining read for anyone interested in the history of engineering and technology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Technology in America
Author: Alan I. MarcusPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350307580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as transportation and communications. This unique book connects phenomena such as colonial printing presses with the American Revolution; early photographs with the creation of an allegedly unique American character; and high-tech advances in biotechnology with a growing desire for individual autonomy. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the history of technology, the history of science, and American history.
An Engineer's Alphabet
Author: Henry PetroskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505300
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped into, here and there, as the mood strikes the reader. In time, it is hoped, this book should become the source to which readers go first when they encounter a vague or obscure reference to the softer side of engineering.
Open Standards and the Digital Age
Author: Andrew L. RussellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139916610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of 'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control.
Engineering Rules
Author: JoAnne YatesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421428903
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting. Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History Conference Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. This type of standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desirable standards that would have taken much longer to emerge from the market and that governments were rarely willing to set. By the 1920s, the standardizers began to think of themselves as critical to global prosperity and world peace. After World War II, standardizers transcended Cold War divisions to create standards that made the global economy possible. Finally, Yates and Murphy reveal how, since 1990, a new generation of standardizers has focused on supporting the internet and web while applying the same standard-setting process to regulate the potential social and environmental harms of the increasingly global economy. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, Yates and Murphy describe the positive ideals that sparked the standardization movement, the ways its leaders tried to realize those ideals, and the challenges the movement faces today. Engineering Rules is a riveting global history of the people, processes, and organizations that created and maintain this nearly invisible infrastructure of today's economy, which is just as important as the state or the global market.
American Corporate Economy
Author: William LazonickPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415186117
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The readings collected in these four volumes examine the evolution, operation, and performance of the American corporate enterprise, and the American corporate economy more generally. Divided into seven sections, many of the readings provide broad overviews of the evolution of the US corporate enterprise, while others contribute to debates on its role in the evolution of American economy and society. The material is arranged thematically to help the reader navigate the field. There is also a new introduction and a thorough index, making this set an invaluable resource for both academics and practitioners in the field.