Main entry:

Slaton, Amy E., 1957-

Title & Author:

Reinforced concrete and the modernization of American building, 1900-1930 / Amy E. Slaton.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Description:

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Science and commerce : scenes from a marriage -- Concrete testing : the academics at work -- Science on site : the field-testing and regulation of concrete construction -- Science and the "fair deal" : standards, specifications, and commercial ambition -- The business of building : technological and managerial techniques in concrete construction -- What "modern" meant : reinforced concrete and the social history of functionalist design.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, Amy E. Slaton explores how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor and how the technology of concrete buildings - little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry - offers a case study in the modernization of American production."
"Based on a wealth of data - including university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials, as well as a body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings - this book argues that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural factors."--Jacket.

Resources:
ebrary
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Book review (E-STREAMS)

ISBN:

080186559X (alk. paper)
9780801865596 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Reinforced concrete construction United States History.
Construction en béton armé États-Unis Histoire.
Reinforced concrete construction.
Stahlbetonbau
Gewapend beton.
Techniek.
Vernieuwing.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216928
Call No.: TA683 .S5 2001
Status: Available