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This book brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and illuminating to engineering, technology and architecture. It includes extensive author and subject indexes for locating quotations. The book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professional engineers.

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"… 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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Table of Contents
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.

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    A Paperback / softback by C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1998
      ISBN13: 9780750305945, 978-0750305945
      ISBN10: 0750305940

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and illuminating to engineering, technology and architecture. It includes extensive author and subject indexes for locating quotations. The book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professional engineers.

      Trade Review

      "… 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."
      -Choice



      Table of Contents
      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.

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