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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROSPECTS IN THE PROFESSIONS. V. ENGINEERING. Engineering as a profession is of comparatively recent growth. Its development, concurrently with the advances made in applications of physical science to practical purposes, has been of late years remarkable. Its future must be assured wherever commerce and the manufacturing arts are pursued. Notwithstanding the uncertainty of the reward attached to it, an engineering career appears to be no less attractive now to youths whose mental tendency is of the imaginative and constructive order than it was formerly, when engineering had hardly emerged from the condition of a craft, many of the principles of which were but dimly perceived, and when ' rule of thumb' governed all but the masters of the art. Engineering is not a profession whose range and limitations admit of exact definition, and an attempt to reduce its requirements to a mere formula is unlikely to be of much service, and it is certain to be productive of some harm. The field of engineering is so wide, its literature so extensive, and its relationships with arts, science, and manufactures so complex, that it is hardly surprising to find a clear knowledge of its scope somewhat rare among the general body of the public; to whose service, nevertheless, in the noble words of the original charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the profession is dedicated. It must be of no slight importance to the thousands of young men who every year, interested in the operations of engineers, or it may be dazzled by their exploits, seek to follow this calling, that they should appreciate what the term ' engineer' really implies. Whether military or civil -- the two main divisions ot the profession -- it is essential to understand at the outset that all true engineering is ba...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217751841 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217751849 |
| Weight | 1.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.34 In |
| List Price | $39.25 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 604 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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