Engineering rules : global standard setting since 1880 / JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, JoAnne, 1951- author.

Murphy, Craig, author.

Series:

Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standards, Engineering--History.

Standards, Engineering.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Contents:

The first wave

Engineering professionalization and private standard setting for industry before 1900

Organizing private standard setting within and across borders, 1900 to World War I

A community and a movement, World War I to the Great Depression

The second wave

Decline and revival of the movement, the 1930s to the 1950s

Standards for a global market, the 1960s to the 1980s

US participation in international RFI/EMC standardization, World War II through the 1980s

The third wave

Computer networking ushers in a new era in standard setting, 1980s to 2000s

The development of a W3C standard: WebCrypto API, 2012-2017

Voluntary standards for quality management and social responsibility since the 1980s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421428895

142142889X

OCLC:

1048660647