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Technical Alliance
American anti-waste group (1919–1921) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Technical Alliance was a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York City, formed towards the end of 1919 by American researcher Howard Scott. The Alliance started an Energy Survey of North America, intended to document the wastefulness of the capitalist system.[1]
The Technical Alliance advocated a more rational and productive society directed by technical experts, but their survey work failed to have a significant effect. Although some waste was documented, the "prosperity and conservatism of the 1920s undermined the political orientation of the Technical Alliance", and it disbanded in 1921.[1][2][3] The energy survey was not completed.[4]
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Members
The Technical Alliance was by no means a mass organization, but it did have some notable members and technical experts. Apart from Scott, other members of the Technical Alliance included:[5]
- Frederick L. Ackerman
- Carl C. Alsberg
- Alice Barrows
- Allen Carpenter
- Stuart Chase
- L.K. Comstock
- Bassett Jones
- Robert H. Kohn
- Benton MacKaye
- Leland Olds
- Charles P. Steinmetz
- Richard C. Tolman
- John C. Vaughan
- Thorstein Veblen
- Charles H. Whitaker
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