Engineering In Time: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context

By Rudi Volti

Part B: History of Engineering

Chapter List

Chapter 2: Prehistoric Engineering (~10 ⁶ BP ?~10 ⁴ BP) Primal Discovery of Devices
Chapter 3: Ancient Engineering (~8000 BCE ?~500 CE) Societal Interest in Devices
Chapter 4: Medieval Engineering (~500 CE ?~1400) Societal Promotion of Devices
Chapter 5: Renascent Engineering (~1400 ?~1800) Organizing for Device Production
Chapter 6: Expansive Engineering (~1800 ?~1940) Environmental Impact of Devices
Chapter 7: Modern Engineering (~1940 ?~1990) Expanding Reach of Devices
Chapter 8: Contemporary Engineering (~1990 ?~2000+) Prospects for Closure

An interest in making ingenious devices is a primal human instinct dating to more than a million years in the past. With time, this developed into a powerful quest to use the creative capacity of the mind and manipulative skills of the hand to establish not only a chronology of engineering invention and innovation but also an evolving connectivity of defining relevance to the theory and practice of engineering.

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