Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent-and Decline?: A Profession Torn Between Technology and Economy, 1850-1990, with Outlooks to the Present

In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.

— One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have...