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Eda Kranakis |
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Format: Hardcover, 146
Publisher: Mit Pr (November 01, 1996)
Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6.75"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.95 lbs.
ISBN: 9780262112178 |
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"Eda Kranakis has written a finely-researched study in the history of 19th century technology that contrasts engineering ideas, education, and designs developed in France to those pursued in the United States. Her comparative approach has the technological richness of suspension bridges and the cultural depth of general social theories. This lively book is accessible to the general public and will delight the specialist either in history or technology." -- David P. Billington, Civil Engineering & Operations Research, Princeton University If it is true, as Tocqueville suggested, that social and class systems shape technology, research, and knowledge, then the effects should be visible both at the individual level and at the level of technical institutions and local environments. That is the central issue addressed in Constructing a Bridge, a tale of two cultures that investigates how national traditions shape technological communities and their institutions and become embedded in everyday engineeri |
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