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Engineering rules : global standard setting since 1880 /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.