Work of the American Engineering Standards Committee

THERE are literally hundreds of organized groups engaged in industrial standardization work in this country. By and large, this group standardization movement has developed during the present century. It has been a natural outgrowth of company standardization, which has been one of the most marked characteristics of our industrial growth. Just as company standardization led to standardization by groups, so the latter inevitably necessitates intergroup or national standardization. The World War created a situation in all industrial countries which made clearly apparent the necessity of a national standardization clearing house. The first step toward a national organization was taken in 1918 by five national engineering societies, which together with the U. S. Government Departments of War, Navy and Commerce, formed the nucleus of such an organization. Later, this nucleus was broadened into a federation of trade associations, technical societies, and Government departments. The American Engineering Standards Committee is primarily concerned with national and international standardization. It is the agency through which industrial standardization in

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  Open Access•Andrew L Russell•Enterprise & Society•2009

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  Open Access•Marc A Olshan•Sociological Quarterly•1993

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