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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Volume 8

AMERICAN ENGINEERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

AMERICAN ENGINEERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

A Biographical Index

CHRISTINE ROYSDON AND LINDA A. KHATRI

First published in 1978 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

This edition first published in 2019
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1978 Christine Roydson and Linda A. Khatri

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AMERICAN ENGINEERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

A Biographical Index

Christine Roysdon
Linda A. Khatri

1978 by Christine Roysdon and Linda A. Khatri
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Roysdon, Christy.

American engineers of the nineteenth century.

(Garland reference library of social science; v. 53)
1. EngineersUnited StatesBiographyIndexes.

I. Khatri, Linda A., joint author. II. Title.

Z5851.R7 [TA139] 016.62000922 77-83371

ISBN 0-8240-9827-7

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To Rosemary

CONTENTS

During the late nineteenth century, brief biographies of several thousand American engineers and technologists appeared in the technical and trade press. The lack of indexes to this material has presented a barrier to its effective use by scholars. Cumulative indexes exist for each of the journals of the major engineering societies, but there is no consolidated index that covers all, as the Engineering Index now does for current technical literature. Trade journals pose an even greater problem, as only a few titles have cumulative indexes, from which references to biographies must be painstakingly plucked. Most have volume indexes, but some have none at all. The result is that the biographer or historian desiring to consult these sources has been obliged to engage in tedious page-by-page searching.

Scholars who have braved the difficulties of recovering biographies from these journals have no doubt found the work rewarding. The trade journals chronicle the work and lives of individuals whose achievements are doubtless significant, even well known, yet who remain anonymous or obscure. Nineteenth-century cyclopedias of biography, while helpful, are of course incomplete. Later comprehensive works, such as the Dictionary of American Biography, tend to include only the most influential and wealthy technologists. Society journals profile only their members. Thus, it is hoped that our index will not only help solve problems of access, but also open opportunities for scholars to study and assess the work of hitherto little known, potentially important figures.

Of the vast array of technical periodicals that were founded in the United States during the nineteenth century, candidates for indexing were narrowed to those that enjoyed fairly wide, national circulation, had substantial nineteenth-century runs, and featured regular obituary or biographical columns. Among these, we sought a selection of periodicals that would provide full coverage of the rapidly diversifying engineering profession and of all major areas of technological activity.

Inclusion in the index was limited to engineers and technologists who died during or before 1900. Admittedly, this date is arbitrary and results in exclusion of some important nineteenth-century figures who died within the subsequent few decades. The choice was based mostly on the desire to keep the size of the file manageable, as adding another five or ten years to the period covered might have doubled it.

As a result, those persons indexed were largely engaged in activities that characterized mid- and late-nineteenth-century technology, especially the development of railroads and canals. The process of industrialization, particularly the rise of iron and steel, is also strongly represented by the large number of manufacturers. Electrical engineering, still in its infancy, is only seminally represented; chemical engineering was virtually nonexistent.

Care was taken to select only those individuals whose careers were of a technical nature. Engineers and inventors of practical devices were automatically included as were industrialists who made significant contributions to the manufacturing process. Several important technical journalists were indexed on the basis of their close relationship with the technology of the period. An effort was made to eliminate those whose technical contributions were negligible, or of an ephemeral nature, such as capitalists, financiers, telegraphers, inventors of useless gadgets, and drivers of locomotives and canal boats.

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