The Engineer in America

Introduction by Terry S. Reynolds
Part I: The Engineer and Engineering in 19th-Century America
Overview
The engineer in 19th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds
Background
Engineers Are People by John B. Rae
Practice
Turnpike Construction in Antebellum Virginia by Robert F. Hunter
Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System by Louis P. Cain
Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950 by Martin Reuss
Institutions
Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech by James E. Brittain and Robert C. McMath, Jr.
At the Turn of a Screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a Standard American Thread by Bruce Sinclair
Part II: The Engineer and Engineering in 20th-Century America
Overview
The Engineer in 20th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds
Background
The Electrification of America: The System Builders by Thomas P. Hughes
Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-Century America by Edwin Layton
Practice
Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America by Bruce Sinclair
The Introduction of the Loading Coil: George A. Campbell and Michael I. Pupin by James E. Brittain
Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-cooled Engine by Stuart W. Leslie
The Scientific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 by Bruce E. Seely
Institutions
Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century by Terry S. Reynolds
Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907-1932 by W. Bernard Carlson
The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered by Peter Meiksins
Index