Armytage W.H.G. A Social History of Engineering

MIT Press, 2003. — 410 p. — (MIT Press Classics). — ISBN: 9780262310932A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of the volume concentrates on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Social History of Engineering reflects Professor Armytage's special subject area interests, namely nineteenth-century industrial society, radical and socialist movements, the history of professional organization, and the study of higher and technical education.From Stone to Metal
The Greeks
The Romans
The Legacies of the East
Anglo-French Civilization, 1100–1399
Italian Ingenuity
German Miners and Metallurgists, 1450–1650
The Struggle with Water in Britain 1540–1740
The Power Revolution, 1740–1800
French Influence and Example
The Franco-British Wars, 1793–1815
The Age of the Mechanical Engineer, 1815–1857
New Horizons in Britain, 1815–1854
The Crimean War and After, 1854–1857
India: Challenge and Stimulant
The American Civil War and After
The German Exemplar
The Generation of Electricity
The Processing of Molecules to 1914
The Internal Combustion Revolution to 1914
Social Adjustment in Britain, 1867–1914
The First World War and after, 1914–1935
The American Oasis and the Twentieth Century
The Awakening of the Russian Giant, 1920–1946
Purpose and Planning in Britain, 1935–1945
The Sinews of a New State, 1945–1964
The Endless Frontier
Bibliographies
List of Professional Institutions
Index of Subjects and Places
Index of Persons