Engineers: A History of Engineering and Structural Design

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The history of technological change provide contemporary engineers with a wealth of knowledge from which to draw. Engineering innovation involves just as much adventure and the highs and lows of success and failure as the histories of wars and government. Here the author describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.The topics in this book are based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential disasters. In discussing these the author puts across approaches to the modern concept of structure. It will thus prove an inspirational t…