Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited
the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their
ability to make and do things creatively to ensure their survival.
From the beginning, therefore, they have been defined by their
technology, and the history of technology is the history of the
species. For most of this period, the development of human
technical skills has been extremely slow and repetitive, limited to
basic tools and weapons and the ability to control fire. The
utilisation of animal power and the invention of the means of
harnessing the power of wind and falling water added gradually to
their technical skills, but it was the discovery of ways of using
power from heat engines a mere three hundred years ago that
accelerated this process into a prodigious expansion of technical
power that fundamentally transformed human societies . It is this
development which deserves to be to be called 'The Engineering
Revolution' and provides the primary focus of this book.
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