Since the autumn of 2007 Justin Pollard s Eccentric Engineer column
in the award-winning E&T magazine has been campaigning to
remind engineers of the extraordinary role that their subject has
played in human history. This book gathers together three years of
those musings, highlighting not simply the most famous engineering
tales but the unusual, the erratic, and occasionally the patently
insane. In its fifty stories it covers everything from aircraft
carriers made of ice, to the origins of the omnibus. We ll toy with
Roman turbines, and Greek computers, look at Renaissance hypertext
and have arguments with Americans over the shape of our lightning
conductors. We ll shake Scotland with earthquakes and build cars
out of beans. But most of all we ll celebrate the joys and perils
of living in an engineered world."
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