By Ruth Oldenziel
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Independent as the machine might seem to be, Veblen argued that production engineers would be needed at the helm and were the only one, who could be entrusred with irs supervision. The Ilotioll of te:chllology and the figure of the engmeer entered Veblen's work as an afterthought. It ]leverthdes~ prowd to he a crucial one. His meraphoncal language enhanced a modernist mode but also suppressed imponanr experiences that did not flt the analog)',\Xlhile he acknowledged the place of workers' skills, he saw engllleers as the chief bearers of techillcal knowledge:.
In spite of her recapitulation of the older meanings of invention~ in her own reforrTlulation, T;ubell could not e~cape the emerging machine-bound understanding of )Jlvelltions because, like Cage, she felt compelled to argue that women could indeed be ~ucctssful in devi~ing things mechanical. S. Patent Office ill the nation's capital. She championed working-clas~ women rather than Tarbell's middle-class women who worked at home. Smith, preslL1ent of the \\foman's National Industrial League of Amcrica, dirccdy challenged the Patelll Office in a blitz campaign on the lKcasion of it~ hundredth anniversary in 1890.
T women lVere an integral part ofcivilization met with complete resi~tance. A, a 1,\,1 re~on, lhe;: ,ettled for a ~eparate and segregated building, "" I'he Woman's Pavihon," de,igned by the' young MIT archItecture grad llate Sophia C;. ady Board of Manager~ headed by Chicagoan socialile and icmini'it Bertha Honor~ Palmer (1849-1918). ' [Figure 71 Reflecting women's small space of negotiation, Hayden's p,lVilioll was the sillalle'l of:dl and precariollsly located between the officwl White City and lic~ntiolls :v1id".