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.

Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Standards, Engineering--History.

Standards, Engineering.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

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.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-2890-3

OCLC:

1091626510