Engineers and engineering history: Problems and perspectives

History and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-436

  Picon, Antoine ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Engineering; History; Practice; Rationality; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947321117     PISSN: 07341512     EISSN: 14772620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0734151042000304367     Document Type: Article

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