1st Edition

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

    367 Pages
    by CRC Press

    384 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    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 index
    Author index

    Biography

    Gaither, C.C.

    "… 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