The Triumphs of Modern Engineering (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry Frith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330067843 ISBN 13 : 9781330067840

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Triumphs of Modern Engineering

Whether this machinery craze has had a destruct ive effect on the artistic handicrafts of Great Britain is an open question, and one not within our power to discuss in these pages. It may suffice to say that we have heard it advanced, and forcibly argued, that the mechanical bias of our work has caused a deteriora tion of our taste that our old superiority in artistic handiwork has passed away since the establishment of machinery and mechanical tools. Our touch and our taste have alike become deteriorated, say some. It may not be so; but we do not, at any rate, hold the unique and exalted position in the Engineering World that at one time we did. The foreigner and the American already have beaten us in inventiveness and though our British solidity, and a thorough official inspection, combine to keep us safer in our constructions, the crown for initiative Science must be placed on other heads than ours. True it is that the English may Claim to have been the pioneers of Engineering as now generally understood from English brains sprang the locomotive and the railway, and in England they remain the best to this day.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330067843
• ISBN 13: 9781330067840
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329
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