Engineering rules : global standard setting since 1880 /
JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The first wave -- Engineering professionalization and private standard setting for industry before 1900 -- Organizing private standard setting within and across borders, 1900 to World War I -- A community and a movement, World War I to the Great Depression -- The second wave -- Decline and revival of the movement, the 1930s to the 1950s -- Standards for a global market, the 1960s to the 1980s -- US participation in international RFI/EMC standardization, World War II through the 1980s -- The third wave -- Computer networking ushers in a new era in standard setting, 1980s to 2000s -- The development of a W3C standard: WebCrypto API, 2012-2017 -- Voluntary standards for quality management and social responsibility since the 1980s.