Material Experiments

In nineteenth-century America, strength of materials, an engineering science, focused on empirical research that yielded practical tools about how to predict the behavior of a wide variety of materials engineers might encounter as they built the nation's infrastructure. This orientation toward "cookbook formulae" that could accommodate many different kinds of timber, stone, mortar, metals, and so on was specifically tailored for the American context, where engineers were peripatetic, materials diverse, and labor in short supply. But these methods also reflected deeper beliefs about the specialness of the landscape and the providential site of the American political experiment. As such, engineers' appreciation of natural bounty both emerged from and contributed to larger values about exceptionalism and the practical character of Americans

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• Energy Workarounds

  Open Access•Aleksandra Kobiljski•Technology and Culture•2022

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• Anyone, but not Everyone

  Jacqueline Rohde, Derrick Satterfield et al.•Engineering Studies•2020

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• The Right Tools for the Job

  Adele Clarke, Adele E Clarke et al.•Right Tools for the Job•1992

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• The Education of Engineers in America before the Morrill Act of 1862

  Terry S Reynolds•History of Education Quarterly•1992

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• Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863

  Richard J Morrisey•Utah Historical Quarterly•1960

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• Science and the Growth of the American Republic

  Open Access•I Bernard Cohen•The Review of Politics•1976

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• Mirror-Image Twins

  Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton•Technology and Culture•1971

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• Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics

  Arnold Thackray, Bruce Sinclair•Technology and Culture•1976

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• Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power

  John G Burke•Technology and Culture•1966

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• Alexander Dallas Bache

  Nathan Reingold•Technology and Culture•1970

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