TY  - BOOK
AU  - D I Blockley
TI  - Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
T2  - Very short introductions, 309. 
SN  - 9780199578696
U1  - 620.002 BLO-E 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Engineering. Engineering --Popular works
N1  -  	From idea to reality -- The age of gravity: time for work -- The age of heat: you can't get something for nothing -- The age of electromagnetism: the power of attraction -- The age of information: getting smaller -- The age of systems: risky futures
N2  - Engineering is part of almost everything we do--from the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on, to the telephones and computers we use to communicate and the X-ray machines that help doctors diagnose diseases. In this Very Short Introduction, David Blockley explores the nature and practice of engineering--its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, craft, science, and technology. He begins with its early roots, ranging from Archimedes to some of the great figures of engineering such as Brunel and Marconi, right up to the modern day, describing the five ages of engineering--gravity, heat, electromagnetism, information, and systems--and showing how they relate to one another. Blockley discusses some of engineering\\\'s great achievements as well as its great disasters--such as when things went catastrophically wrong at Chernobyl--using examples of everyday tools to reveal how engineering actually works. He also looks at some of the contributions engineers will have to make in the future in order to sustain and promote human well-being
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