Industrializing Iron Construction at the Ecole Centrale Paris, 1829-1865

As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new material-iron. Industrializing Iron Construction at the Ecole Centrale Paris, 1829-1865 explains a novel response to that need, a successful new school to educate civil and structural en...