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Information and
Infrastructure
1946
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Networks: Processes:
Corporations and point to continuous small scale, dynamic
Public Agencies. service system, transmute,
private
Processes:
batch to continuous
process
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
Costs, risks and
benefits:
Structures materials
and construction,
failure, convenience
Machines fuel,
environment and
safety, value of power
Processes labor and
materials,
environment, product
Networks
infrastructure,
failure, service
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Energy equals charge
times voltage
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
Art reflects society How american Formulas describe form
and technology literature is and symbolism. Form
influences art. influenced by is an aesthetic choice
Examples: technology: within the framework
of efficiency and
Thomas Cole: Leo Marx: The Machine economy
in the Garden
1828 Landscape with Different forms
Dead Tree Hawthorne, Thoreau, illustrate choice:
Emerson, Melville, Ohio River bridges
1846 The Picnick James, and Fitzgerald
The choice of a flat
Mondrian: Cecelia Tichi: parabolic arch yields
Shifting Gears an elegant design
1932 Composition B which is also
Light Grey and Yellow Hemingway, Dos Passos, efficient
Williams
1944 Broadway Boogie
Woogie
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
September 17 Thomas Telford Telford engineered Vertical and
"Structural Artist" metal bridges. His Horizontal Forces:
Engineered Large Scale "Father of Civil arch bridges and
Structures: Arch and Engineering" suspension bridge are Menai Straits Bridge
Suspension Bridges (1757 1834) built in the modern Model: scale and
form. Unlike previous behavior of suspension
The first modern designers, Telford bridge.
suspension bridge: realized that using
Menai Straits Bridge iron in bridges Cable Forces and
required new forms to Form: vector
The first modern arch achieve elegance, decomposition, axial
bridge: efficiency and tension; polygonal
Craigellachie Bridge economy. shape for point loads,
parabolic shape for
uniform load.
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
River Networks:
The Mississippi
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
PA > Piston Force
LN > Power Stroke
Frequency (Distance
per Time)
F = force (lbs)
V = velocity (ft /
min)
P = power in ftlbs
per min
Thrust equals drag. Steam Boat
Drag increases with
the velocity squared. D = drag force
p = water pressure
Power = Thrust x CD = drag coefficient
Velocity Pp = paddle power
T = thrust
Vp = paddle velocity
PE = engine power
pT = pressure for
thrust
Ap = paddle area
VT = thrust velocity
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
Physical images of new British artistic Power versus mobility
machines: factories response to Industrial (weight): Form is
and cities, steamboats Revolution. embodied in LA
and railroads. Steam
and Horse Power. John Ruskin Big LA leads to
Gothic Revival heavy and powerful
Small LA leads to
light and weak
High pressure leads
to danger, but light
and powerful
Fast action leads to
fatigue, but light and
powerful
f = P r / h
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
September 27 Francis Cabot Lowell Lowell was an Measurement of head:
(1775 1817) innovator who force or pressure of
America's First Major developed the water.
Industry (Regional): Uriah Atherton Boyden integrated textile
Textiles (1804 1879) mill. Raw cotton Measurement of flow
would go into the mill the weir.
Machines: Textile James B. Francis and a finished product
Mill (1815 1892) would come out. The turbine?
Francis was a pioneer,
The Francis Turbine stimulated by Boyden,
who designed, tested,
Network: Lowell Canal and implemented weirs
and turbines.
The Weir
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Efficiency = Power Out Water Turbine
/ Power In.
Hp = potential
horsepower
Q = flow
w = weight density
H = head (or drop)
Pin = power input (in
ftlbs/sec)
Pout = power output
T = thrust
V = velocity
E = efficiency
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
Winslow Homer James Russel Lowell Transformation of a
morning bell at Lowell Poet and Professor at river valley with a
Harvard power network:
Constable water (1819 1891) controlling flow, Q,
wheel depicting craft and head, H
water power. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
President of Harvard Canals, dams and
(1856 1943) gates; weirs and
turbines
Amy Lowell
Poet Domesticating nature
(1874 1925) by harnessing water.
Robert Lowell Resculpturing the
Poet terrain (e.g. canal
(1917 ) walks) Landscape
architecture
The Lowell Offering, A
Repository written by
"Factory Girls"
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
September 29 George Stephenson The Stephenson's Friction K'NEX
"RR Pioneer" innovate the railroad Machine
Networks: Railroads (1781 1848) in Britain by using a
Watt engine and metal Incline experiments
Transcontinental Line Robert Stephenson wheels on metal rails.
(1803 1859) In America, Jervis
Machines: invents the bogie;
John Jervis Baldwin is the premier
The Rocket, designer and builder
The Lancaster Matthias Baldwin of locomotives.
"American Locomotive Thomson builds an
Designer" industry with the P &
(1795 1866) RR.
J. Edgar Thomson
"Engineer Executive"
(1808 1874)
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
St. Louis to Chicago
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
George Inness, Jason Railroads unified the
Cropsey nation by bringing
states together.
RR brought
impressionists to the The Golden Spike at
country.. e.g. Monet Promontory Point.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
October 1 Joseph Henry Henry invents the Henry's telegraph and
"Scientist and strong electromagnet, electromagnet.
The First National Inventor" and he uses it for a
Company (1799 1878) telegraph. Morse puts
together a working
Networks: Samuel Morse system which leads to
"Innovator" Western Union.
The Telegraph & (1791 1872) Cornell is enlisted by
Western Union Morse and builds the
Ezra Cornell first telegraph line.
"Entrepenuer"
(1807 1874)
George Westinghouse
(1846 1914)
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Ohm's Law and Strong Electromagnet
Kirchoff's Laws. and Telegraph
Ohm's law tells us
that the voltage and R = resistance
current are linearly r = resistivity
related through the L = length
material property of A = wire area
resistance. V = voltage
Kirchoff's laws state I = current
conservation of charge F = force
and potential. B = flux density
A = pole area
Communication along
the single line
railroads improved
safety and RR speed.
Gasoline to
heat/pressure to
motion.
Factories : individual
assembly (batch) to
assembly line
(continuous).
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
T = traction force
Fp = piston force
m = mass of car
r = gear ratio
Smog from NOx.
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Chaplin, Modern Times.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
October 13 Orville Wright Wright Brothers: the Drag Balance
(1871 1948) first sustained
Machines: The flight, at Kitty Hawk. Lift?
Airplane Wilbur Wright Wind tunnel tests,
(1867 1912) special engine design, Control?
The Wright Flyer and manual controls
Samuel Langley for flight.
(1834 1906) Langley secretary of
Smithsonian, and well
Douglas known competitor.
Boeing
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Cubism: Picasso and
Braque called
themselves Orville and
Wilbur.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
October 15 J. C. Maxwell Maxwell, Hertz: Microphone:
explain electricity Bell uses
Networks: H. Hertz and magnetism electrolytic
Telephone, Wireless Marconi: develops microphone.
Telegraph and Radio G. Marconi wireless telegraph Edison invents the
Deforest, Armstrong: carbon microphone
Machines: Deforest radio development AM
Telephone, Radio and FM Loudspeaker:
Armstrong Sarnoff: RCA, radio Joseph Henry advises
giant Bell about how to make
Sarnoff Bell: telephone, a loudspeaker
variable resistance
A. G. Bell Grey: Bell's Resonance frequency of
competitor a dipole aerial and
E. Grey Vail: first AT & T wire loop.
executive
T. Vail
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
modulation:
intermittent to
continuous waves
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
Radio kills the Radio drama: "War of Modulated Carrier Wave
concert. Piano in the the Worlds," by Orson
living room is Wells Modulation maintains
replaced by radio. tone of voice radio
personalities.
RCA buys an orchestra
and internationally V = Sin(wmt)Sin(wct)
known conductor.
where
wm << wc
wc = 2pf
Speed of EM waves:
instant communication.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
October 20
Review: Themes
October 22
Midterm Exam
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
Monopolies vs Costs and risks take
competition : examples different forms. The
Standard Oil and AT cost of a structure
& T depends on materials
and labor, the risk
Patents and a 'patent depends on design and
monopoly': encourage use. Network failures
entrepeneurial cause secondary system
behavior by reducing failures (hospitals).
risks of competition. Machines and processes
have environmental
consequences.
FORMULAS
Many benefits are
explained by what was
replaced. The machine
has an output of
horses. The bridge
replaces the ferry or
time consuming
crossing. The network
replaces old networks
(hand delivered
mail). The process
creates a new material
(steel).
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
November 3 Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, an Cast iron, wrought
(1835 1919) innovator, sees the iron and steel:
Dominant Steel Company market for steel demonstration of
Henry Clay Frick rails. Holley, the material properties:
Processes: Steel ( ) first consulting brittleness.
engineer, designs
Blast Furnace and Henry Bessemer Carnegie's steel plant
(1813 1898) which uses the
Bessemer Process Bessemer process.
Alexander Lyman Holley Frick, a coke
J. Edgar Thomson Steel (1832 1882) supplier, becomes
Works Carnegie's partner.
James B. Eads Eads designs the first
"RR Bridge Innovator" steel bridge.
(1820 1889)
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Carnegie, Morgan and
Schwab form US Steel.
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Steel is stronger, Fe = iron
more reliable, and as CaS = slag (waste)
ductile as wrought CO2 = carbon dioxide
iron.
f = stress
e = strain
E = Young's modulus
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
The Eads' Bridge, The The Morgan Library The Long Span
Brooklyn Bridge: both The Frick House
made from Carnegie's The Carnegie Libraries For bridges a stronger
steel. Joseph Stella Pension Plans for material allows for a
New York Universities lighter load qL: since
Interpreted: The f increases A must
Bridge decrease
A = H/f
This leads to a lower
force
H = (qL)(L/8d)
Alternatively, the new
material allows for a
longer span L.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
November 5 Edwin L. Drake Drake creates the
(1819 1880) first oil well in
Dominant Oil Company 1859. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller amasses an industry
Processes: (1839 ) with Standard Oil and
Hydrocarbons and controls 90% of
Rubber FrŠesch industry (1883).
( ) FrŠesch removes
Machines: Automobile sulphur from 'skunk
Burton oil' for kerosene.
( ) Burton: batch process
for extracting
Goodyear gasoline from crude
( ) oil.
Harvey Firestone
( )
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Rubber car tires. f = stress
P = pressure
r = pipe radius
h = pipe thickness
w = weight density
H = head
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Rockefeller is major
benefactor to
U of Chicago
Rockefeller U
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller
Foundation
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
November 10 Aspdin Aspen invents Portland
( ) cement in 1824.
Processes: Cement and Hennebique develops
Reinforced Concrete Hennebique reinforced concrete
( ) designs (1892).
Structures: Bridges Maillart is a
Maillart structural artist
( ) using the new material
of reinforced concrete
Freyssinet (e.g. Tavanassa, 1905)
( ) Freyssinet invents
prestressed concrete
(1928).
Form of thin shells
H = qL2/8d
Structures: Dams
Norris Dam & Wilson
Dam
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Morgan sees TVA for
restructuring
community life.
Lilienthal sees great
way to produce power
cheaply.
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Water and Power for
Los Angelos
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
The power lost in the
lines (Ps) depends on
the current (I)
squared and the
resistance (Rs).
The stress in a pipe
depends on the
pressure (P), radius
(r) and thickness (h).
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Dam is a visual icon
of the thirtees.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
November 24 Major Henry Robert Robert's rules, report
to congress on
HydroElectric Power Roosevelt Columbia, Roosevelt's
Allows for new deal, Whipple
Industrialization Whipple writes control plan
for navigation,
Networks: Charles Martin Hall flooding/power and
irrigation. Hall
Navigation of the invents process for
Columbia River smelting aluminum ore.
Bonneville Power
Authority
Structures: Dams
John Day
Processes: Smelting
of Aluminum
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
The Dams: Highest From flooded to
Lift for navigation. industrially
developed.
Boeing Corporation
centered around hydro Rapids to navigation
power.
From water and flow to
power
Aluminum: from
expensive to
affordable
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
Restructuring the
Pacific Northwest:
Boeing and Alcoa
thrive near a power
source for making
aluminum.
The mass produced per
mole of electrons (M)
equals the molar mass
(mm) divided by the
number of electrons
consumed per formula
unit (n).
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Columbia River has Hall process for
greatest power (drop aluminum:
times flow) of any electrolysis.
river.
Disassociation of
aluminum from oxygen.
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
Aluminum: light,
strong and affordable.
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
November 26 C. Marcus Olson Olson purification Transistor switch
of Silicon (1940)
Machines: Microchips Frederick Seitz Vacuum tube switch
Seitz Diodes
Shockley, Brattain, Vacuum diode
and Bardeen Shockley, Brattain,
and Bardeen Semiconductor diode
Robert Noyce transistor for
( ) telephone switching
(1948)
Jack St. Clair Kilby
( ) Noyce integrated
circuit (1959)
Kilby monolithic
idea silicon as
transistor, resistor,
capacitor, conductor.
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Chip is small, cheap,
mass produceable, and
versatile.
Seitz recognizes the
usefulness of pure
silicon for diodes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
Electronic revolution.
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Terman Ryan's
student works with
local industry (1927):
creates silicon valley
Hewlett, Packard
Terman's students
HP
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Hewlett and Packard,
starting in their
garage, establish HP,
silicon valley's first
success story.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC FORMULAS
End of WW II and Cold Silicon Valley:
War: pump money into Stanford's vision
Silicon Valley. realized: university
industry government
partnership.
FORMULAS
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYSICS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS FORMULAS
Radar
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
LECTURE ENGINEERS AND SPECIFIC LECTURE
ENTREPENEURS CONTRIBUTIONS DEMONSTRATION
December 3 George Boole Boole Boolean Combinatorial logic.
(1815 1864) algebra.
Machines: The Flipflop
Computer Alan Turing Turing invents
(1912 1954) Turing machine Register
general purpose
John Von Neumann programmable computer Stack
(1903 1957) (1937).
Vannevar Bush Von Neumann first
(1890 1974) draft of EDVAC (1944)
first definition of
T. J. Watson, Jr. modern computer.
( )
Watson, Jr. Computer
S. Jobs industry entrepeneur
( )
December 8 Total internal
reflection.
Networks: Fiber
Optics
Machines: The Laser
December 10
Review
MODERN LEGACY TRANSFORMATIONS KEY IDEAS
Bit memory cell Si : silicon
flipflop.
GaAs : germanium
Sequencer or clock.
Pixelated, but
distortionless, copy.
FORMULAS
HUMANITIES
VISUAL ARTS LITERATURE AND FORMULAS
AND FINE ARTS EDUCATION
"Toy Story," computer "Soul of a New
animation Machine"
ISI building as
punched card, Venturi
architect.