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History of Engineering

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Pages
26
Year
2019
Language
English
Publisher
IntroBooks

About

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.

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