New Profession, Old Order
Subtitle: Engineers and German Society, 18151914
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780521526036
Subjects: Engineering: general; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of science; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History: World; History; Sociology; Germany; Europe - General; General; Engineering; Engineering--Social aspects--Germany--History; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - General; Social Science / General
First sentence: Reflecting on a century of technological development in German mechanical engineering, the historian Conrad Matschoss noted in 1908 that the "extraordinary progress of the last few decades" contrasted favorably with conditions during the greater part of the nineteenth century.