‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management
(2024)
Journal Article
Measurement was vital to nineteenth-century engineering. Focusing on the work of the Stevenson engineering firm in Scotland, this paper explores the processes by which engineers made their measurements credible and explains how measurement, as both a... Read More about ‘The very term mensuration sounds engineer-like’: measurement and engineering authority in nineteenth-century river management.