| John K. Brown | | Associate Professor, Science Technology�and Society | | Associate Professor, History | | Ph.D., University of Virginia | | | | Dr. Brown has served on the faculty since 1992. He has published one book, on design and production in the nineteenth-century capital equipment sector, as well as several articles on American technological and business history. He holds professional memberships in the Organization of American Historians, the Society for the History of Technology, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education. | | | | Research Interests | | Jack Brown specializes in British and American industrial history, focusing particularly on the history of engineering. His research projects include a history of the capital equipment sector's role in the first century of American industrialization, a study of the first era of professional development of American and British civil and mechanical engineering, and a history of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, the world's first major steel structure. | | |
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