Main entry:

Wells, Matthew.

Title & Author:

Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design / Matthew Wells.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
Prehistory and ancient times -- Rome and the East (220 BC-AD 533) -- Byzantium and the European Dark Ages (476-1000) -- Light (1000-1600) -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Early modern engineering (1580-1789) -- Encyclopaedia (1750-1860) -- The American reconstruction (1860-1890) -- Classical analysis and reinforce concrete (1890-1920) -- Flight and the World Wars (1900-1950) -- Early contemporaries (1945-1960) -- The continual present (1950-2000).

Summary:

"The history of technological change is an ever-growing tool box from which the contemporary engineer can draw. Innovation involves adventure and the highs and lows of success and failure are a catalogue of humanity just as other histories of wars and government. Here, the author explores, describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climate and personalities have brought it to its present state. The topics in this book are based on paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and disasters. In discussing these the author puts across the modern concepts of structure and the approaches used. It will thus prove an inspirational text for architects, engineers and the interested lay reader."--GOOGLE Books

ISBN:

9780415325257 (cased)
0415325250 (cased)
9780415325264 (pbk.)
0415325269 (pbk.)
020335818X
9780203358184

Subject:

Engineering History.
Civil engineering History.
Ingénierie Histoire.
Ouvrages d'art Histoire.
Civil engineering
Engineering
Bautechnik
Technik

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266739
Call No.: BIB 198728
Status: Available