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To Innovate or Not? A Nineteenth Century Overview using Jesse Hartley as a Case Study

doi:10.4203/ccp.48.1.3

A. Jarvis, "To Innovate or Not? A Nineteenth Century Overview using Jesse Hartley as a Case Study", in B.H.V. Topping, M.B. Leeming, (Editors), "Innovation in Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 21-28, 1997. doi:10.4203/ccp.48.1.3

Abstract

This paper considers the perception of innovation in an historical context. Beginning with historians' views of some celebrated engineering works, it outlines changing ideas of progress and how historians have viewed it. Rejecting an episodic innovation-based approach. it goes on to take Jesse Hartley as a case study. He is shown to have exhibited a virtually ideal balance between the safety of maintaining existing practice and the risks of necessary innovation where best practice was found wanting. It has not brought him great fame, but he discharged the fundamental duty of the engineer by solving the actual problems faced with the minimum of expenditure.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 48 INNOVATION IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and M.B. Leeming Paper I.3 To Innovate or Not? A Nineteenth Century Overview using Jesse Hartley as a Case Study A. Jarvis Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom doi:10.4203/ccp.48.1.3 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper A. Jarvis, "To Innovate or Not? A Nineteenth Century Overview using Jesse Hartley as a Case Study", in B.H.V. Topping, M.B. Leeming, (Editors), "Innovation in Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 21-28, 1997. doi:10.4203/ccp.48.1.3 Abstract This paper considers the perception of innovation in an historical context. Beginning with historians' views of some celebrated engineering works, it outlines changing ideas of progress and how historians have viewed it. Rejecting an episodic innovation-based approach. it goes on to take Jesse Hartley as a case study. He is shown to have exhibited a virtually ideal balance between the safety of maintaining existing practice and the risks of necessary innovation where best practice was found wanting. It has not brought him great fame, but he discharged the fundamental duty of the engineer by solving the actual problems faced with the minimum of expenditure. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £85 +P&P)
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