GIS in Latin America Webinar Series: Blueprint for Modernity: The Globalization of Engineering

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Israel G. Solares, UNAM / University of Notre Dame
Edward (Ted) Beatty, University of Notre Dame

This project seeks to construct a global history of the engineering profession during its first half-century. We built a new database of roughly 60,000 mining and metallurgical engineers trained in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1930. The data allows us to geo-locate and trace much of their working lives in different spaces, with large numbers working in Latin America as well as Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East and Europe.