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Dec 1914
The Philosophy of Engineering
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Volume 77, Issue 1
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Notwithstanding that engineering structures have but recently come to be designed with precision, and that machinery as we know it to-day is a development of the past century, some of the greatest engineering feats were performed almost before history began. The Chinese wall, the Indian temples, the sphinx-the seven wonders of the world will always compel our attention and baffle our imagination. In truth, the ancients were builders of no mean structures, but, except to some extent in irrigation, their real engineering ends there. They were not producers of economic necessities as we are to-day, but confined themselves to the erection of monuments, as such.
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Maurice G. Parsons, J.ASCE
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