Building on two workshops held in 2020 and 2021, we are completing an edited volume that examines the history of engineering on a global scale. Eight case study chapters present episodes in this history, situated in diverse places around the world, including China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Great Britain, France, and the United States. Each chapter acknowledges the ways that institutions, nations, and empires shaped engineering and engineers’ work in the first half century or so of its modern history. But each also highlights the ways that engineering knowledge, institutional models, and engineers themselves proved extraordinarily mobile. The volume argues that while engineers helped design and build the infrastructure for global exchange in the decades after 1870, the emergence and growth of the profession coproduced industrial societies in the 20th century.
The participants of the volume are.
Stephen Tuffnell
Mikael Wolfe
Doug Jones
Elisabeth Köll
Mark Hendrickson
Marco Bertilorenzi
Aparajith Ramnath
Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato