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Focus will be on development of the major branches of engineering and their supporting educational and professional structures. We will examine selected cases of social interaction and institutional development within these disciplines through the end of World War II and then draw some preliminary conclusions based on that analysis.
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As late as 1816 there were on average only two American engineers in each state And even these were nearly all selfdesignatedassuchJ Noble, 1977J. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there were two types of engineering activity conducted in the United States.
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Meanwhile, urban populations were increasing five times faster than the rural population {Purcell, 1981J, and the demand for food to be sent to cities over the new transportation networks increased accordingly. These trends led to a severe labor shortage in agriculture particularly during the harvest, when demand for labor peaked.
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