HPS282S - HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
Spring 1998
Engineering Conquers the World
15 & 20 January 1998
I. The Role of Engineering in the Industrial Revolution
1. The need for infrastructure
2. Metalworking and Energy
3. The Rise of the Civil Engineer
a) John Smeaton (1724-1792)
II. The Conquest of Space
1. Canals
a) James Brindley (1716-1772) and the Bridgewater Canal
2. Railways
a) George Stephenson (1781-1848) and the Manchester-Liverpool Railway 1830
i) A new kind of engineer?
3. Bridges
a) The Britannia Bridge 1850
4. Steamboats
a) Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) and the Great Eastern
III. The Conquest of Time
1. Communications and the Telegraph
2. Illumination
IV. Urbanization (A combination of the above)
1. Modern city cannot come to be without the technical innovations and the service of the engineer
2. Sewers
3. Water Supplies
4. Mass Transit
V. Conquest of the Political World
1. Colonialism and Engineering
a) The second age of imperialism 1850-1920
b) The Suez Canal - Technologies of the Pharaohs and the Industrial Revolution (Completed 1869)
2. Engineering and the American West
a) Mining
b) Dams and Irrigation
3. Engineering and Nation Building
a) The Canadian West and CPR
b) Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
