ENGINEERING AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION. This item is unavailable.ENGINEERING AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6.25" X 9.25" Hard bound in brick red cloth covered boards with title in gold on the spine. No DJ. PO's book plate inside front cover. Corners rubbed and wrinkle in back cover. 397 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A history of engineering from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to modern (1950). "The theory advanced in this volume may be regarded as an engineering interpretation of history. It does not deny that there have been great political, military, or even engineering leaders. It attributes, however, the ever-increasing power and importance of engineering in the Western World not to a few men but to the fact that many men of less than extraordinary gifts can and have made worth-while contributions to the ever-accumulating mass of knowledge from which engineering power and progress stem.".