- Bib ID:
- 1987700
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kranakis, Eda
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997
- xi, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0262112175 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- Series:
- Inside technology.
- Full contents:
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- I. A Tale of Two Bridges: Finley, Navier, and Suspension Bridge Design. 1. Finley, Technology, and Frontier Society. 2. Designing the Chain Bridge. 3. Finley's Design System in Practice. 4. Navier: The Making of an Engineer-Scientist. 5. Theorizing the Suspension Bridge. 6. The Pont des Invalides
- II. Social Determinants of Engineering Practice: A Comparative View of France and America in the Nineteenth Century. 7. The French Technologists. 8. The American Technologists. 9. Ideology and Technological Practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-441) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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