List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION A Revolution of Engineers? CONTENTS PART ONE Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793 CHAPTER ONE The Last Argument of the King CHAPTER TWO A Social Epistemology of Enlightenment Engineering CHAPTER THREE Design and Deployment PART TWO Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793 CHAPTER FOUR The Tools of Practical Reason CHAPTER FIVE The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Régime CHAPTER SIX Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities PART THREE Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815 CHAPTER SEVEN The Machine in the Revolution CHAPTER EIGHT Terror, Technocracy, Thermidor CHAPTER NINE Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order CONCLUSION Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.