In "Cornerstone of that New Imperialism", Douglas Jones examines the role of US engineers and their experiences in shaping the debate over labor in South Africa between 1890 and 1910, in particular, designing racialized social structures.
Read it at doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

In "Engineering Scientists", Mikael Wolfe explores the role of engineers in the development of meteorological science in Porfirian Mexico. The chapter also traces the different gender roles among the promoters of meteorological science. Check it out in Direct to Open direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

In “A Man Of Many Parts”: Consulting Engineers and the Engineering Of Mass Mining Capitalism, Stephen Tuffnell from @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social examines the role of engineers in London in evaluating the potentialities and speculating in mining regions around the world. Mining the hype!

Edward Beatty & Israel G. Solares' "An Engineered World" presents eight case studies to examine the dramatic global expansion of modern professional engineering—and why this is critical to our understanding of 20th-century world history. #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255335...

In the Introduction of "An Engineered World", Edward Beatty and Israel Solares make an extensive review of the field of engineering history globally and claim that the professionalization of engineering of the late 19th century was born global. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

After 5 years of work, we are thrilled to share with you the publication of "An Engineered World" by @mitpress
. The volume explores the emergence of modern engineering globally, featuring 8 case studies from 1870 to 1970.
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🌎 Just wrapped up a fascinating conversation with Israel G. Solares about his book, 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏: 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒔 @unvpress.bsky.social

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Take a look at this wonderful paper by Emmet von Stackelberg

Next week, we will present our database at the Geosciences, Knowledge and Property Rights Workshop. Thank you for the invitation to the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. You can check the full program here www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

Thank you @engineeringhistory.bsky.social for highlighting this wonderful essay, published earlier this year.

Who managed large corporations? How did modernizing firms navigate periods of rapid technological change such as those that swept the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What role did engineers play in the management of large corporations?

Professionalized, university-trained engineers were rare before the 1870s, but engineers quickly came to be a critical element in the development of planned organizations and societies in the twentieth century.

Hey! This is the bsky account of the Blueprint for Modernity project. Here a brief presentation of the project that we prepared for BHC 2023.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBo7...