RE: Engineering

Carnot’s initiative gave engineers of France their mission in the 19th century to serve the public good through public works.

French engineers in the 19th century were innovators in building with iron and steel. Their secret revolutionized the field of engineering.

Most people trust that engineers are truthful. However, this does not mean that government leaders also trust them. In fact, quite the…

Engineers in the United States, unfairly, are seen to work in the shadow of scientists. That is the view expressed by William Hammack…

Teasing apart what engineers actually do reveals that the sum of the parts is greater than what they are typically given credit for.

The engineer is constantly juggling professional and personal responsibilities.

At the end of the day, whatever engineers think that they know, the thing has to work.

By the end of the 19th century, engineers trained at the Ecole Polytechnique occupied high positions in industry and government in France.

The iron ring reminds me that the imponderables demand respect.

Politics and engineering might as well exist in separate parallel universes. Except, this has not always been the case.

Sir Frederick Bramwell muses on the relationship between science and engineering and how engineering sometimes more resembles art.

Engineers who personified both the promise and perils of that era were sometimes made to suffer consequences for industry’s failings.

In 1857, the English author Samuel Smiles introduced the literary world to a new breed of man — the eminent engineer.

The success of the American Revolution owed much to engineers trained at France’s Royal Military Academy.

The world has changed over the 300-year life of the engineering profession, but the characteristics desired in an engineer have not.

If you impulsively take things apart to see how they work, then the Musée des Arts et Métiers is the place for you. This museum holds a…