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Steinman.; Charles Steinmetz.; Thomas Telford.; Stephen P. Timoshenko. 327 $aJ. A. L. Waddell.father-and-son engineers.; The Lighthouse Stevensons.; fight songs for engineers.; financial engineering.; FIRST.; founder societies.; French tradition in engineering.; G; gentlemen and engineers.; G.I. Bill.; glass half full.; Grand Challenges.; Greatest Britons.; Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.; "a great profession."; H; hairy-eared engineer.; half-life of technical skills.; hard hat.; heroic engineers.; highway numbering system.; historic engineering landmarks.; history and engineering.; history of technology.; honor societies. 327 $ahubris in engineering.I; image of engineers.; imagineering.; industrial design.; industry.; infrastructure.; insight in engineering.; intuition in engineering.; inventions without necessity.; invention vs. innovation.; inventors.; Iron Bridge.; iron ring.; J; jokes about engineers.; joylessness of engineering.; K; keys of honor societies.; L; land-grant institutions.; land surveying.; LAND SURVEYING; letters after an engineer's name.; C.E.; C.Eng.; D.E.E.; D.Sc.; E.I.T.; F.Eng.; M.E.; M.I.C.E.; N.A.E.; P.E.; P.Eng.; S.E.; letters and numerals.; liberal education.; libraries. 327 $alicensing of engineers. 330 $aWritten by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped into, here and there, as the mood strikes the reader. In time, it is hoped, this book should become the source to which readers go first when they encounter a vague or obscure reference to the softer side of engineering. 606 $aEngineering$xPhilosophy$vMiscellanea 606 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy$vMiscellanea 615 0$aEngineering$xPhilosophy 615 0$aTechnology$xPhilosophy 676 $a601 686 $aTEC009000$2bisacsh 700 $aPetroski$b Henry$0314428 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828590703321 996 $aAn engineer's alphabet$93968074 997 $aUNINA