[Pdf free] Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
• Amy E. Slaton •
| #1950760 in Books | 2001-05-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.84 x6.00l,1.08 | File Name: 080186559X | 272 pages
||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| AN ALTOGETHER SIGNIFICANT WORK|By Len|Dr. Slaton skillfully traces the evolution of modern building construction practice as well as the rise of the engineering field that made it possible. As an aside, she successfully argues that the emergence of modern architectural "design" was less of a european phenomenon than generally supposed. The research is thorough, and presented i|||"Well researched and conceptually rich... a superior social history of concrete industrial buildings and the people―from engineers to workers―responsible for them." (Technology and Culture)
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Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings―little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry―offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production.
The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures an...
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