Article ID: CBB205294026

Uncivil Engineers: The Struggle for Control of Seattle's Early Water and Electric Utilities, 1890-1910 (1996)

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Gray Fitzsimons (Author)


IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 22
Issue: 1
Pages: 11-34


Publication Date: 1996
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: WESTERN HYDROELECTRICITY
Language: English

In bringing their designs to fruition, American engineers have played larger roles than those of merely technically minded progenitors of technological artifacts. Their projects frequently demanded that they engage in broader social activities involving entrepreneurial skills, business management, legal strategies, and political organization. As engineers engaged in these heterogeneous activities in the arena of the market place, they frequently found themselves in conflict with one another. Moreover, these wide ranging activities shaped the very "logic" of their designs and the physical characteristics of the artifacts they produced. This study of late 19th-and early 20th-century hydroelectricity in western Washington demonstrates the extent to which the heterogeneous sociotechnical functions of engineers influenced the physical development of their technological systems.

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Article Reynolds, Terry S. (1996) Dams and hydroelectric technology in the American west: A different model. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-9). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Reynolds, Terry S.
Kemp, Emory L.
Louis W. Potts
Christopher W. Merritt
Eric DeLony
Jacob N. Pollock
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Design
Hydroelectric power
Civil engineering
Dams
Bridges, Truss
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Canada
Butte, Montana
Lachine Canal
Concord, New Hampshire
Cleveland, OH
Institutions
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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