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Chapter 1. Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalisation.Chapter 2. The Historical Roots of Modern Bridges: China Engineers as Global Actors.Chapter 3.- Indigenous Resistance and the Technological Imperative: From Chemistry in Birmingham to Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s–1914.Chapter 4. Global Engineers: Professional Trajectories of the Graduates of the École des arts et manufactures (1830s-1920s).Chapter 5. Re-designing Africa: Railways and Globalisation in the Era of the New Imperialism.Chapter 6. The Global Rise of Patent Expertise during the Late Nineteenth Century.Chapter 7. Networks of American Experts in the Caribbean: The Harvard Botanic Station in Cuba (1898-1930).Chapter 8. Hector Vera: Breaking Global Standards: The Anti-Metric Crusade of American Engineer.Chapter 9. Statistics as Service to Democracy: Experimental Design and the Dutiful American Scientist.Chapter 10. The bona fide contracts: An Engineering Company in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1945.Chapter 11. Dutch Irrigation Engineers and Their (Post-) Colonial Irrigation Networks.Chapter 12. Engineers and Scientist as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Program.Chapter 13. Engineers’ Diplomacy: The South American Petroleum Institute, 1941-1950s.Chapter 14. Epilogue: Technology’s Activists and Global Dynamics.