Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design
Wells, Matthew
Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design - London & New York Routledge 2010 - xii, 243p.
CONTENTS List of illustration credits vii Preface xi Introduction 1 1 Prehistory and ancient times 11 2 Rome and the East (220 BC-AD 533) 25 3 Byzantium and the European Dark Ages (476-1000) 41 4 Light (1000-1600) 55 5 Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 75 6 Early modern engineering (1580-1789) 89 7 Encyclopaedia (1750-1860) 105 8 The American reconstruction (1860-1890) 121 9 Classical analysis and reinforced concrete (1890-1920) 135 10 Flight and the World Wars (1900-1950) 149 11 Early contemporaries (1945-1960) 165 12 The continual present (1950-2000) 187 Notes 208 Bibliography 227 Index 235
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Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design - London & New York Routledge 2010 - xii, 243p.
CONTENTS List of illustration credits vii Preface xi Introduction 1 1 Prehistory and ancient times 11 2 Rome and the East (220 BC-AD 533) 25 3 Byzantium and the European Dark Ages (476-1000) 41 4 Light (1000-1600) 55 5 Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 75 6 Early modern engineering (1580-1789) 89 7 Encyclopaedia (1750-1860) 105 8 The American reconstruction (1860-1890) 121 9 Classical analysis and reinforced concrete (1890-1920) 135 10 Flight and the World Wars (1900-1950) 149 11 Early contemporaries (1945-1960) 165 12 The continual present (1950-2000) 187 Notes 208 Bibliography 227 Index 235
0415325269
624.17 / WEL