TY - BOOK AU - Wells, Matthew TI - Engineers: : a history of engineering and structural designb SN - 9780415325264 U1 - 620.009 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Engineering-History N1 - 1. Prehistory and Ancient Times -- 2. Rome and the East (220 BC-533 AD) -- 3. Byzantium and the European Dark Ages (476-1000) -- 4. Light (1000-1600) -- 5. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- 6. Enlightenment (1580-1789) -- 7. Encyclopaedia (1750-1860) -- 8. The American Reconstruction (1860-1890) -- 9. Classical Analysis and Reinforced Concrete (1890-1920) -- 10. Flight and the World Wars (1900-1950) -- 11. Early Contemporaries (1945-1960) -- 12. The Continual Present (1950-2000) N2 - Describes and illustrates engineering design as well as conditions, events, cultural influences and personalities related to it. This title is suitable for professional and student architects and engineers ER -