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research program conducted by the federal government's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR). Road building early in the century resembled many fields in en-gineering that depended on empirically derived understandings of nature; these fields were "low technology" when compared with the science-based "high-tech" areas of chemistry and electricity ...
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Bureau of Public Roads, the federal government's highway...
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The Scientific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918–1940. B. Seely. Published 1 October 1984. History, Engineering. Technology and Culture.
As America’s Highways 1776–1976 explained, this second incarnation was “exclusively a house research journal, and all of its contributors were engineers, scientists, and economists of the Bureau of Public Roads.” The magazine expanded its scope as BPR’s interests grew to every aspect of highway transportation: “finance and taxation ...
Bureau of Public Roads, the federal government's highway agency, played a central part in this work, acting as a leader in a variety of areas, ranging from legislative promotion to research. One element of special importance in the Bureau's leadership was the establishment of standards and specifications for road construction and materials. For
The Bureau of Public Roads; its history, activities, and organization by Holt, W. Stull (William Stull), 1896-1981
Its purpose is the construction and improvement of public roads, and the promotion of agricultural engineering. It administers the Federal Aid Road Act, and it investigates and disseminates information regarding all of the phases of road construction.
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