CHRONICLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED STATES.

CHRONICLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED STATES.
Title CHRONICLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE UNITED STATES. PDF eBook
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Release 2021
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ISBN 9789798585357

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Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States

Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States
Title Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States PDF eBook
Author Thomas H Fehring
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Total Pages 426
Release 2021-06-16
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ISBN 9780791884843

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From the time it was organized in 1880, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recorded aspects of the history of the mechanical engineering profession and the careers of some of its notable practitioners. The Society's historical efforts were formalized in 1971 with the creation of a History and Heritage Committee. This volume commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of that committee and collects, in a single place, many of the historical contributions published over the past fifty years in ASME's flagship magazine, Mechanical Engineering. In preparation for the United States' bicentennial year, and later the Society's centennial, the editors of Mechanical Engineering contracted with engineer-historian Fritz Hirschfeld for a long series of articles about the county's early mechanical engineering heritage and the lives of notable mechanical engineers, particularly those associated with ASME's founding. Hirschfeld's articles form the foundation of this volume. To supplement Hirschfeld's work, the editors have added numerous other historical articles published in Mechanical Engineering. The engineering innovations described by these articles have been enormously important to the development of modern technological society, and the stories behind their development should be of interest to engineers interested in the history of their profession, as well as anyone interested in American history.

The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910

The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910
Title The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910 PDF eBook
Author Monte A. Calvert
Publisher Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Total Pages 330
Release 1967
Genre Technology & Engineering
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Catalogue of the Mechanical Engineering Collection in the United States National Museum

Catalogue of the Mechanical Engineering Collection in the United States National Museum
Title Catalogue of the Mechanical Engineering Collection in the United States National Museum PDF eBook
Author United States National Museum
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Total Pages 118
Release 1962
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AMER SOCIETY MECHANICAL ENGINE

AMER SOCIETY MECHANICAL ENGINE
Title AMER SOCIETY MECHANICAL ENGINE PDF eBook
Author Charles Wallace] [Hunt
Publisher Wentworth Press
Total Pages 20
Release 2016-08-24
Genre History
ISBN 9781360239224

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PCKT-BK

MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PCKT-BK
Title MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PCKT-BK PDF eBook
Author William 1851 Kent
Publisher Wentworth Press
Total Pages 1132
Release 2016-08-27
Genre History
ISBN 9781371370237

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States

Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States
Title Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States PDF eBook
Author Thomas H. Fehring
Publisher American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Total Pages 426
Release 2021-06
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780791885086

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One of the leading contributors of historical articles to ME over the past fifty years was Fritz Hirschfeld. In preparation for the United States' bicentennial year in 1976, the editors of Mechanical Engineering contracted with engineer-historian Hirschfeld for a series of articles on the county's early engineering history. Just a few years later, as the Society was nearing its centennial in 1880, the editors again turned to Hirschfeld and asked him to write a series of articles about the founding of ASME and important early mechanical engineers. Hirschfeld's articles, collected here, provide the foundation for the early portion of this volume. Building upon Hirschfeld's foundation, we selected a wide assortment of other articles about aspects of mechanical engineering history in the United States from the Revolutionary War until recent times. We largely limited our selections to those articles published in Mechanical Engineering magazine during the last fifty years (i.e., 1971-2021). Even for this period, the volume does not include all such articles due to limitations in length and editorial judgments. For instance, some articles duplicated coverage of specific events or innovations. In such cases we picked what we deemed the best, or most comprehensive of overlapping articles. We also decided to focus this volume on the history of mechanical engineering in America. We thus excluded articles on historical developments largely occurring outside the United States. At some future time, we may "harvest" both pre-1971 ME articles and unselected post-1971 articles, as well as articles focusing on non-American mechanical engineering achievements, for a separate collection or collections. Of the more than seventy articles collected in this volume, well over ninety per cent were drawn from issues of ME published during the past fifty years. Five pieces, however, were drawn from outside that chronological limit or from other sources. We have, for example, included a 1933 biographical article from ME about American engineer George H. Corliss. Corliss's innovations in the design and manufacture of steam engines and related devices helped establish the United States as a major player in the manufacture of prime movers. Corliss was considered by his contemporaries to be such a significant figure in mechanical engineering circles in the United States that we elected to include him. He was, after all, asked to serve as the first president of ASME-an offer which he declined. A second exception is another biographical article, one on Edwin Reynolds, a significant steam engine designer. It was authored by Thomas Fehring, one of the editors of this volume. Reynolds worked for a time for the Corliss Steam Engine Company, as did other notable American engineers such as Erasmus Darwin Leavitt (second president of ASME) and Alexander L. Holley (one of the founders of the Society), before moving to Allis-Chalmers. Reynolds made significant improvements in steam engine design. He was president of ASME in 1902-03, and three of his steam engines have been designated as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks by the Society.