Engineering Rules : Global Standard Setting since 1880 /

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Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. In Engineering...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Yates, JoAnne, 1951- (Autor), Murphy, Craig (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Standards, Engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
Normes techniques > Histoire.
Standards, Engineering > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The first wave
  • Engineering professionalization and private standard setting for industry before 1900
  • Organizing private standard setting within and across borders, 1900 to World War I
  • A community and a movement, World War I to the Great Depression
  • The second wave
  • Decline and revival of the movement, the 1930s to the 1950s
  • Standards for a global market, the 1960s to the 1980s
  • US participation in international RFI/EMC standardization, World War II through the 1980s
  • The third wave
  • Computer networking ushers in a new era in standard setting, 1980s to 2000s
  • The development of a W3C standard: WebCrypto API, 2012-2017
  • Voluntary standards for quality management and social responsibility since the 1980s.

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