INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEER & SOCIETY

INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEER & SOCIETY

1. Development of Engineering in Society

   • Early Years
     • Egyptian
       • Surveying, Irrigation system, Pyramids
     • Greek
       • Advance in art, literature and philosophy
     • Mesopotamia
       • Wheeled cart, Canals, temples and city wall, Astrolabe, Ziggurat, Code of Hammurabi
     • Romans
       • Hydraulic cement, Construction machine, The Appian Way, Aqua Apple, The Pantheon, The Colosseum
   • Middle Age
     • Labor saving devices - Windmill, water mills, water wheels
     • China - gunpowder, development of making paper
     • Castle
     • Islamic Civilization - Measurement of distance & planet size, Time & calendar, Algebra & trigonometry
   • Advancement of Science
     • Networks of canal
     • Transportation & comm
     • Canal building
     • Ocean transportation
   • Advancement in Engineering
     • Alessandra Volta, Sir Humphrey, Michael Faraday & Thomas A. Edison - Development of electricity
     • John Macadam & Thomas Telford - road building
     • Matthew Boulton & James Watt - built engine used in pumping out mines & machinery in iron works and textile mills
     • James Watt - vastly improved steam engine
     • Samuel F.B. Morse - Comm by telegraph
   • Twentieth Century
     • 1903, Wibur & Orville Wright - Air transportation
     • Henry Ford - Motor veh