Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design / Matthew Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Matthew.

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--History.

Engineering.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Routledge, [2010]

Summary:

The history of technological change is an ever-growing tool box from which the contemporary engineer can draw. Innovation involves adventure and the highs and lows of success and failure are a catalogue of humanity just as other histories of wars and government. Here, the author explores, describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climate and personalities have brought it to its present state. The topics in this book are based on paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and disasters. In discussing these the author puts across the modern concepts of structure and the approaches used. It will thus prove an inspirational text for architects, engineers and the interested lay reader.

Contents:

Prehistory and ancient times

Rome and the East (220 BC-AD 533)

Byzantium and the European Dark Ages (476-1000)

Light (1000-1600)

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Early modern engineering (1580-1789)

Encyclopaedia (1750-1860)

The American reconstruction (1860-1890)

Classical analysis and reinforce concrete (1890-1920)

Flight and the World Wars (1900-1950)

Early contemporaries (1945-1960)

The continual present (1950-2000)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780415325257

0415325250

0415325269

9780203358184

020335818X

9780415325264

OCLC:

61217527