Engineering in American Society by Merritt Raymond H.;

Author:Merritt, Raymond H.; [Merritt H. Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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1 See résumé of the John Tyndall banquet, New York Tribune, Feb. 5, 1873. Also Proceedings A.S.C.E., I (1873-1874), 21, 31, 172-82, 187-88; Transactions A.S.C.E., I (1868), 1-11, 68-80, 137-51; Proceedings of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y., 1875), 10-24, 30-38, 39-42, 43-46, 81, 87-95.

2 John U. Nef says that the word civilization was first used in 1766 by the Marquis de Mirabeau, Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (New York, 1960), 79. For a discussion of civilization and urbanization see Oscar Handlin and John Burchard, eds., The Historian and the City (Cambridge, Mass., 1963), 133, 138, 151, 163-64; Charles N. Glaab and A. Theodore Brown, A History of Urban America (New York, 1967), 166; Blake McKelvey, The Urbanization of America (New Brunswick, N.J., 1963), 18-19, 34; George Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” in Metropolis: Values in Conflict, ed. C. E. Elias, Jr., and others (Belmont, Calif., 1966), 35-43.

3 George S. Morison, The New Epoch as Developed by the Manufacture of Power (Boston, 1903), 19-20.

4 Elmer Corthell, The Interoceanic Problem and Its Scientific Solution (New York, 1885), 37. Speech given before the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

5 See Sebastian de Grazia, Of Time, Work and Leisure (New York, 1962), for a discussion of leisure in its historical perspective.

6 George Leposky, “The Man Who Raised Chicago from the Mud,” Chicago American Magazine (March 20, 1966), 14.

7 Much of this report was later incorporated into a similar study made by Chesbrough for Boston. See Appendix A, “Sewerage Systems of Large Cities,” in the Sewerage of Boston, city document no. 3 (Boston, 1875).

8 See sketch of Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough in Biographical Sketches of Leading Men of Chicago (Chicago, 1868), 191-95.

9 Robert S. Woodbury has stated that “technology, like science, is one of the few truly international activities and historians of technology had better treat it so.” “The Scholarly Future of the History of Technology,” Technology and Culture, I (Fall 1960), 347.

10 As the United States found out in the Spanish-American War, acquiring foreign possessions could become an unnecessary burden on the resources of a technological state.

11 Henry B. Nason, ed., Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886 (Troy, N.Y., 1887), 281-82.

12 See K. W. Clendinning’s sketch of Allan Campbell in the Dictionary of American Biography, III, 448-49. After returning to New York City, Campbell became chief engineer and later president of the Harlem Railroad. He also served as commissioner of public works for New York City, as a member of the New York Historical Society, St. Andrews Society, the Century Club, and vestryman of Trinity Church. He was an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

13 Allan Campbell, “Introductory Remarks on the Provinces of the LaPlata and the Cultivation of Cotton and the Parana and Cordova Railway” (London, 1861).

14 See sketch of Edward W. Serrell in the Dictionary of American Biography, XVI, 592-93.

15 See Edna Yost’s sketch of George E. Church in the Dictionary of American Biography, IV, 102-103.

16 The Andrew Talcott letters are in the Library of Congress.

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