Education, technology and industrial performance in Europe, 1850-1939

Preface Introduction Part I. Setting the Pace: 1. Worlds apart: academic instruction and professional qualifications in the training of mechanical engineers in England, 1850-1914 Anne Guagnini 2. The training and career structures of engineers in France, 1880-1939 Andre Grelon 3. Technical education and industrial performance in Germany: a triumph of heterogeneity Wolfgang Koenig Part II. Coping with the Giants: 4. The training of engineers in Belgium, 1830-1940 Jean C. Baudet 5. Technical education, engineering, and industrial growth: Sweden in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Goeran Ahlstroem 6. Industrialization and technical education in Spain, 1850-1914 Santiago Riera i Tuebols 7. Academic qualifications and professional functions in the development of the Italian engineering schools, 1859-1914 Anna Guagnini Part III. The Exploitation of Knowledge: 8. France in perspective: education, innovation, and performance in the French electrical industry, 1880-1914 Robert Fox 9. Training for specialists: the precision instruments industry in Britain and France, 1890-1925 Mari Williams Part IV. A Transatlantic Perspective: 10. Education, industry, and the American university Arthur Donovan Bibliography Index.