From Millwrights to Shipwrights to the Twenty-first Century: Explorations in a History of Technical Communication in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 1572730765
- ISBN-13
- 9781572730762
- Category
- Technology & Engineering / General
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Hampton Press (NJ)
- Author
- R. John Brockmann
Description
This text divides the history of American technical communication into three themes: the importance of visual communication (1791-1887); the power of genre (1791-1980); and the role of technical communicators as innovators within constraints (1948-1954).
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