America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

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Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Technology as Social Production: Industry, Education, and Engineers 1 The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts - I The Rise of Science- Based Industry 2 The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts - II The Development of Technical Education 3 The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts - III The Emergence of the Professional Engineer 4 Preservation Through Change Corporate Engineers and Social Reform Part Two. Corporate Reform as Conscious Social Production 5 Laying the Foundation Scientific and Industrial Standardization 6 The Corporation as Inventor Patent-Law Reform and Patent Monopoly 7 Science for Industry The Organization of Industrial and University Research 8 Technology as People The Industrial Process of Higher Education—I 9 Technology as People The Industrial Process of Higher Education—II 10 A Technology of Social Production Modern Management and the Expansion of Engineering Epilogue Notes Index