Engineering History Project Datasets, ca 1870-1930

These datasets make available extensive information on engineers who were trained and worked during the first half century or so of modern professional engineering, roughly 1870-1930. We used digital methods to scape, organize, clean, validate, and present data on tens of thousands of individual engineers, often capturing multiple points of their careers, and thousands of firms that employed professional engineers. Our broader research project examines the emergence of professional engineering, 1870-1930, and uses the global mining sector as a case study.Further information on our methods and the datasets is available on the “Read Me” page and in the methods paper cited below.Citations: Any use of this data in published reports or papers should appropriately acknowledge the source, and cite the source in any table, as follows:Israel G. Solares and Edward Beatty, “Engineering History Project Datasets.” DOI 10.7274/30108082. See also:Beatty, Edward, and Israel G. Solares. “Introduction: Toward an Engineered World.” In An Engineered World: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity. MIT Press, 2025.Solares, Israel G., and Edward Beatty. “Engineers & Corporate Management, ca 1870–1930: The Invisible Hand Redux.” Enterprise & Society, 2023, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2022.57.