Gray Fitzsimons (Author)
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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