Lanterna Rally

Author: Charles Joseph Tilden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781330130810

Excerpt from The Romance of Engineering The remarkable and rapid development of modern engineering has brought many of its more dramatic phases into public light. Artists, both with pen and pencil, have made use of the opportunities offered, and stories have been written and pictures painted in which the central feature of the composition is some engineering creation, either of fact or of imagination. Many of Kipling's stories, as for example "The Bridge Builders" and ".007," are striking bits of romance, with singular truthfulness of detail, in the field of modern engineering, and Pennell's sketches of the Panama Canal throw a new and most interesting light on that great work. The subject of this afternoon's talk is not, however, modern engineering, except in so far as it is a development, just as every human activity must be, out of the inspiration and the efforts of men of past ages, but rather a glimpse at two or three periods of history of which there is record of engineering endeavor. An interesting factor, at once suggested by these considerations, is that of time, and an effort is made to show this time factor in its relation to these periods of engineering activity, with especial reference to one phase of this activity in the Romance period. Now, an engineer prefers to express his ideas, whenever possible, by means of a drawing or diagram, and so an attempt has been made in the accompanying chart* to show graphically this time relation of historical events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.