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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049053803321

Autore

Beatty Edward

Titolo

An Engineered World : The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

0-262-38472-8

0-262-38473-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Collana

Engineering Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

SolaresIsrael G

Soggetti

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization

SCIENCE / History

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

How engineering as a modern profession emerged as a global phenomenon--and why its development and expansion are so critical to our understanding of twentieth-century world history.An Engineered World examines the dramatic and global expansion of modern, professional engineering between roughly 1870 and 1950.