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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"history of engineering"”.
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On the Art of Fortification: A New Visitor's Center to Revitalize Fort Washington Park
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the evolution of artillery has commanded the evolution of military architecture. Fortifications physically depict a representation of the history of engineering and architectural principles; including strategic site placement, materiality, construction …
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Algorithms for self-healing networks
… reconfigurable, in the sense that the topology of the network can be changed by the nodes in the network. For example, peer-to-peer, wireless and ad-hoc networks are reconfigurable. More generally, many social networks, such as a company's organizational chart; infrastructure networks, such as …
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Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute
The founders and officers of the Virginia Military Institute, one of the few American engineering schools in the antebellum period, embedded a particular engineering culture into the curriculum and discipline of the school. This occurred, in some cases, as a consequence of struggles by the elite of …
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Making an Impact: Coastal Cliff Response to Individual Wave Impacts
… to erosion are confounded by the complexity of processes operating, slow rates of morphological change, and the difficulty of direct field observations. Waves are generally considered to be a principle driver of cliff retreat, but few studies have conclusively shown how waves actually drive …
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Ownership of the earth forever and ever: engineering nature, race, and labor in Southern Africa and North America, 1860-1924
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01