Engineering in Time
Subtitle: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781860944338
Subjects: Engineering: general; History of engineering & technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; History; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General
First sentence: The first documented reference to a term suggestive of the presently conventional meaning of the word engineer or engineering can be traced to early Roman times when the Latin expression ingenium was used to suggest some ingenious attribute of an object or a person.