AIME celebrates 150 years Founding of AIME - Wilkes Barre, PA, May 17,1871

摘要

To understand the context of the founding of the American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME), it is necessary to look at the United States as it existed at the time. The Transcontinental Railroad had been completed in 1869, linking the United States from east to west and opening the western mining regions. While the Civil War had ended in 1865, four states, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia, had just been readmitted in 1870, and the Standard Oil Company had just been incorporated by John D. Rockefeller. There was a demand for educated mining engineers and metallurgists, yet mining engineering education was in its infancy.