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By Marshall Brain

Engineering is the place human wisdom meets real-world problems—and solves them. it is the resource of a few of our best innovations, from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall mind, author of the How Stuff Works sequence and a professor on the Engineering marketers software at NCSU, presents a close examine 250 milestones within the self-discipline. He covers some of the components, together with chemical, aerospace, and desktop engineering, from historic background to the current. the subjects contain architectural wonders just like the Acropolis, the nice Wall of China, and the Eiffel Tower; transportation advances equivalent to the high-speed bullet educate; scientific suggestions, together with the bogus center and kidney dialysis; advancements in communications, corresponding to the cellphone; in addition to air con, DNA fingerprinting, the big Hadron Collider, drones, and more. 

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