TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells, Matthew
TI  - Engineers : a history of engineering and structural design
SN  - 0415325269
U1  - 624.17 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London & New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - 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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