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| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue: Engineering: An American Tradition | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Engineering under a Mandate for Basic Science | 24 |
| Ch. 2 | Toward a Larger Role | 52 |
| Ch. 3 | Applied Science and Relevance: The RANN Concept | 76 |
| Ch. 4 | The RANN Years - Fruitful, Beset, and Brief | 105 |
| Ch. 5 | Interregnum: Searching for a Place | 124 |
| Ch. 6 | By Any Name, Engineering | 155 |
| Ch. 7 | Resources and Policies for Full Partnership | 177 |
| Ch. 8 | Acting on the Mandate | 211 |
| Ch. 9 | NSF Engineering over Time | 250 |
| App. 1 | National Science Foundation Directors, 1951-90 | 269 |
| App. 2 | National Science Foundation Heads of Engineering in Varying Organizational Configurations, 1951-90 | 271 |
| App. 3 | Engineering Research Centers, to 1990 | 273 |
| App. 4 | Engineers Serving on the National Science Board, 1951-90 | 275 |
| App. 5 | Statistical Figures, NSF Spending | 277 |
| Abbreviations | 281 | |
| Notes | 285 | |
| Notes on Sources | 331 | |
| Index | 359 |
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Jay Williams
reviewed Enabling American Innovation: Engineering and the National Science Foundation on October 08, 2014
Enabling American Innovation: Engineering and the National Science Foundation
This was a quite comprehensive survey of the American fascination with technological innovation. Covering structures like bridges and skyscrapers, and forms of power including steam, electricity and nuclear reactions, the author makes a a consistent case, and to some degree makes observations about the American character. It's unfortunate that the book was published just as the next wave of technology (the Internet) was becoming popular, because it would have been interesting to see how or whether something as comparatively abstract as information and data would fit with the definition of sublime, or perhaps be, in some way, the ultimate example of the technological sublime (transcending the individual.)
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