Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880

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

Book Overview

The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.

Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History Conference

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142889X
• ISBN13: 9781421428895
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"