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    History of Engineering
    History of Engineering
    History of Engineering
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    History of Engineering

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    The idea of engineering has been present since prehistoric
    times when humans started shaping important creations like
    lever, wheel and pulley. Every invention is reliable with the
    contemporary explanation of engineering manipulating basic
    principles of mechanics to develop useful tools and objects.
    The word engineering has been derived from the term engineer
    and dates back to around recently 1325 and the word engineer
    in those times meant or denoted to someone who was the
    constructor of engines. The term engine has actually become
    obsolete now as it is now referred to a military machine or in
    a more detailed description it was a mechanical apparatus used
    in wars for eg: a catapult. Engine comes from an old word
    used in Latin ingenium which means intrinsic quality,
    particularly cerebral power, hereafter an ingenious creation.
    As time passed more structures like houses, buildings and
    bridges which required technicalities the term what we know as
    civil engineering was introduced to differentiate among those
    who were experts in building military machines and was called
    military engineering.
    The term engineering has much depth and the discipline is
    extremely broad and comprises a variety of more dedicated
    types of engineering, each with a more precise prominence on
    specific parts of technology, applied science and types of
    application.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntroBooks
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9781393196990

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      History of Engineering - IntroBooks Team

      History of Engineering

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      Preface

      The idea of engineering has been present since prehistoric times when humans started shaping important creations like lever, wheel and pulley. Every invention is reliable with the contemporary explanation of engineering manipulating basic principles of mechanics to develop useful tools and objects.

      The word engineering has been derived from the term engineer and dates back to around recently 1325 and the word engineer in those times meant or denoted to someone who was the constructor of engines. The term engine has actually become obsolete now as it is now referred to a military machine or in a more detailed description it was a mechanical apparatus used in wars for eg: a catapult. Engine comes from an old word used in Latin ingenium which means intrinsic quality, particularly cerebral power, hereafter an ingenious creation.

      As time passed more structures like houses, buildings and bridges which required technicalities the term what we know as civil engineering was introduced to differentiate among those who were experts in building military machines and was called military engineering.

      The term engineering has much depth and the discipline is extremely broad and comprises a variety of more dedicated types of engineering, each with a more precise prominence on specific parts of technology, applied science and types of application.

      Introduction

      Engineering can be said to have been in place as far as the time of Pyramids. We could say that the first builder was Imhotep who build the Step Pyramid in 2550 BC at Saqqarah, Egypt. His successors Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Persians gave a to the world some exquisite structures which stand upright till modern date with the help of civil engineering combined with geometry, physical science and arithmetic. Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, Roman and Persian

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