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The Early History of Mechanical Engineering - Vol. 1 (2004) online; vol 2 (2004) online; Rae, John and Rudi Volti. The Engineer in History (2001) online; Rhodes, Edward, ed. Engineering America: The Rise of the American Professional Class, 1838–1920 (Washington: Westphalia Press, 2014) 142 pp. Smith, Edgar C.
This category is for articles on history books published about American civil engineering projects or civil engineers. This is not meant to be a list of textbooks on civil engineering topics or practice. See also. History of the civil engineering profession; History of the American civil engineering profession; History of structural engineering
The history of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) spans nearly two hundred years beginning with its founding in 1824. RPI is the oldest continuously operating technological university in both the English-speaking world and the Americas. [1] The Institute was the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States, in 1835.
The book in America: a history of the making and selling of books in the United States (2nd ed.). Bowker. Cecil J. McHale (1957), Guide to General Book Publishers in the United States (4th ed.), Ann Arbor, MI {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher "New York Review of Books", The New York Review of Books 2022, ISSN 0028-7504 1963-
Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 – June 14, 2023) was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis.A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author.
As socialist meetings and press had been banned in Germany, Steinmetz fled to Zurich in 1889 to escape possible arrest. Cornell University Professor Ronald R. Kline, author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist, [14] points to other factors which reinforced Steinmetz's decision to leave his homeland such as financial problems and the prospect of a more harmonious life with his socialist friends ...
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of ...
The original American Institute of Electrical Engineers bookplate at Harvard University Trust. The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston.