Author: A W Skempton
Publisher: Thomas Telford Limited
ISBN: 9780727700889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Smeaton, the greatest civil engineer of the 18th century, was principal founder of the profession in Britain and an engineering scientist of international repute. This is a biography of Smeaton, which covers the whole range of his diverse achievements.
John Smeaton FRS
Author: A W Skempton
Publisher: Thomas Telford Limited
ISBN: 9780727700889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Smeaton, the greatest civil engineer of the 18th century, was principal founder of the profession in Britain and an engineering scientist of international repute. This is a biography of Smeaton, which covers the whole range of his diverse achievements.
Publisher: Thomas Telford Limited
ISBN: 9780727700889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Smeaton, the greatest civil engineer of the 18th century, was principal founder of the profession in Britain and an engineering scientist of international repute. This is a biography of Smeaton, which covers the whole range of his diverse achievements.
Reports of the Late John Smeaton
Author: John Smeaton
Publisher:
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Category : Civil enfgineering
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Civil enfgineering
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F. R. S.
Author: John Smeaton
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ISBN: 9780727751959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780727751959
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The Smeatonians
Author: Garth Watson
Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727715265
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The history of the Society is traced from its formation in 1771 to bring together engineers "in a friendly way". The lives of the founding members are described as well as the growing status of civil engineering. The book includes original documents and letters.
Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727715265
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The history of the Society is traced from its formation in 1771 to bring together engineers "in a friendly way". The lives of the founding members are described as well as the growing status of civil engineering. The book includes original documents and letters.
Reports of the Late John Smeaton
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371309797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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ISBN: 9780371309797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Mantra of Efficiency
Author: Jennifer Karns Alexander
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801886935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner, 2010 Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology Efficiency—associated with individual discipline, superior management, and increased profits or productivity—often counts as one of the highest virtues in Western culture. But what does it mean, exactly, to be efficient? How did this concept evolve from a means for evaluating simple machines to the mantra of progress and a prerequisite for success? In this provocative and ambitious study, Jennifer Karns Alexander explores the growing power of efficiency in the post-industrial West. Examining the ways the concept has appeared in modern history—from a benign measure of the thermal economy of a machine to its widespread application to personal behaviors like chewing habits, spending choices, and shop floor movements to its controversial use as a measure of the business success of American slavery—she argues that beneath efficiency's seemingly endless variety lies a common theme: the pursuit of mastery through techniques of surveillance, discipline, and control. Six historical case studies—two from Britain, one each from France and Germany, and two from the United States—illustrate the concept's fascinating development and provide context for the meanings of, and uses for, efficiency today and in the future.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801886935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner, 2010 Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology Efficiency—associated with individual discipline, superior management, and increased profits or productivity—often counts as one of the highest virtues in Western culture. But what does it mean, exactly, to be efficient? How did this concept evolve from a means for evaluating simple machines to the mantra of progress and a prerequisite for success? In this provocative and ambitious study, Jennifer Karns Alexander explores the growing power of efficiency in the post-industrial West. Examining the ways the concept has appeared in modern history—from a benign measure of the thermal economy of a machine to its widespread application to personal behaviors like chewing habits, spending choices, and shop floor movements to its controversial use as a measure of the business success of American slavery—she argues that beneath efficiency's seemingly endless variety lies a common theme: the pursuit of mastery through techniques of surveillance, discipline, and control. Six historical case studies—two from Britain, one each from France and Germany, and two from the United States—illustrate the concept's fascinating development and provide context for the meanings of, and uses for, efficiency today and in the future.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (London)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Lives of the Engineers
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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