Introduction by Terry S. Reynolds Part I: The Engineer and Engineering in 19th-Century America Overview The engineer in 19th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds Background Engineers Are People by John B. Rae Practice Turnpike Construction in Antebellum Virginia by Robert F. Hunter Raising and Watering a City: Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough and Chicago's First Sanitation System by Louis P. Cain Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950 by Martin Reuss Institutions Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech by James E. Brittain and Robert C.

McMath, Jr. At the Turn of a Screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a Standard American Thread by Bruce Sinclair Part II: The Engineer and Engineering in 20th-Century America Overview The Engineer in 20th-Century America by Terry S. Reynolds Background The Electrification of America: The System Builders by Thomas P. Hughes Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-Century America by Edwin Layton Practice Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America by Bruce Sinclair The Introduction of the Loading Coil: George A. Campbell and Michael I. Pupin by James E. Brittain Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-cooled Engine by Stuart W.

Leslie The Scientific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 by Bruce E. Seely Institutions Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century by Terry S. Reynolds Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering Course, 1907-1932 by W. Bernard Carlson The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered by Peter Meiksins Index.