Essay On Science Of Engineering

An Essay On the Science of Engineering
In the history of European civilization the ancient era was dominated by the poet and the philosopher; the priest and the politician ruled in the Middle Ages; the scientist and the engineer are all in all in the modern age. And wherever European civilization has been carried, the engineer has accompanied that civilization. It is not that the ancient people did not know engineering. The men who built the pyramids, who crested the steel pillar of victory at Delhi, who encircled china with the great wall were surely capable engineers. As architects, the early engineers did know a thing or two. The nameless architects who planned and constructed the pyramids in Egypt or the Javanese temples of Boro Budur or the marvelous Angkor-vat of Vietnam or the massive pillared hall of worship at Madura in south India, are surely not to be despised even by the most conceited modern engineer. But modern engineering is something more scientific, more complex and more comprehensive.

He is also a mechanic, an electrician, a chemist. He deals with the structure of things,- it may be of a building or of a machine or of the atom bomb. He has not only constructed huge buildings: - he has bridged mighty rivers; he has tunneled massive hills; he has laid tube-railways underneath land and water; he has dammed waterways; he has carried railways even up the precipitous slopes of mountains; he has carried railways even up the precipitous slopes of mountains; he has harnessed electricity; he has applied chemistry in a hundred ways to the making of things, he has begun exploring the universe of space that passes beyond the range of earth’s gravitation. The engineer is now an advanced technologist. Great are the achievements of the engineers of the engineers of today, and any country that wants to progress must know how to make use of the