Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780750305945 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 367 str.

Carl C. Gaither; A. E. Cavazos-Gaither; C. C. Gaither

Opis

For the first time in one easily accessible form, Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and Architecture brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find profound, witty, and wise quotations from the most famous to the unknown. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the prefect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students, professional engineers, and the more general public who are interested in who has said what on engineering, technology, and architecture.

Recenzje

"… well indexed and easy to use. … Using humor and scholarship equally, this title does not attempt to be comprehensive or complete but strives to serve as both 'pleasure reading' and 'ready reference' for the general reader and the experienced professional. … this is the title that should be given to selective quotation seekers, who will appreciate its fascinating content. Useful to any audience."
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Spis treści

Preface. Analysis. Answer. Arch. Architect. Architecture. Assumption. Authority. Beauty. Bridge. Build. Builder. Building. Calculation. Cause and Effect. Chaos. Common Sense. Communication. Concept. Construction. Create. Creativity. Creed. Data. Decision. Design. Discovery. Electrical. Energy. Engineer. Engineering. Equation. Error. Estimates. Ethics. Experience. Experiment. Facts. Failure. Fluid. Force. Forecast. Formula. Friction. Genius. Geology. Goal. Graphics. Gravity. Heat. Idea. Imagination. Impossible. Impression. Informaton. Innovation. Inspiration. Inventions. Inventor. Investigator. Judgment. Knowledge. Laws. Lever. Logic. Machine. Mathematics. Measurement. Mechanics. Method. Mistake. Model. Motion. Observation. Opinion. Patent. Perceptions. Perspectives. Power. Prayer. Precision. Predict. Problem. Project. Proportion. Reality. Reason. Repair. Reports. Research. Research Plans. Risk. Rule. Seeing. Simplicity. Solidity. Solution. Specialization. Specifications. Stability. Strength. Surveyor. Symmetry. System. Tables. Technological. Technology. Testing. Theorem. Thermodynamics. Time. Tool. Train Engineer. Truth. Tunnel. Weight. Bibliography. Permissions. Subject by author index. Author by subject index.

O autorze

Gaither, C.C.