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An Introduction to Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach
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Introduction
Definition of Engineering
The profession in which knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways to use, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind.
The Overview Approach
Engineering the Temples of Greece
The Roman Roads and Aqueducts
The Great Wall of China
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Traveling Through the Ages: 1400-1700
First toilet is invented in England
Galileo constructs a series of telescopes, with which he observes the rotation about the sun
Otto von Guerick first demonstrates the existence of a vacuum
Issac Newton constructs first reflecting telescopes
Boyle’s Gas Law, stating pressure varies inversely with volume, is first introduced.