Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880

by Craig N Murphy, JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy

Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421440032
• ISBN13: 9781421440033
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"