Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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! ■■ mn jT Many of the engineering works of antiquity, which re- quired no mean engineering skill, are today inspiring monuments to the profound integrity and perseverance of the engineers of another day. Among their re- markable accomplishments may be mentioned the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the harbors and temples of Rome, and the Pyramids of Egypt, the most prod gious of all human constructions, which according to Herodotus, the Greek historian, the Great Pyramid re- quired the labor of one hundred thousand men for twenty years. Medieval Europe leaves us castles and cathedrals of unique beauty. Modern engineering, following in the footsteps of the astute scientists — mathematicians, physicists, and chemists — has acquired enormous proportions in diversi- fied fields which include civil, electrical, mechanical, mining, marine, agricultural, chemical, and military en- gineering. The interworking of these branches has tormed the basic foundation of our indomitable in- dustries and transportation facilities — our national wealth. The Panama Canal — the greatest engineer- ing achievement in history — the Boulder Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Holland Tunnel, and the Em- pire State Building are products of their combined in- genuities. The dawn of engineering is scarcely upon us; our scratch on the surface predicts an infinitely vast future. ■ ■ f|fe

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Engineering, the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, has been in evidence from the earliest of times; in fact its practice has been an imperative necessity in man s long and bitter struggle for existence in which it has been the mind of man pitted against the brute strength of his enemies. The first great triumphs of engineering, those inven- tions that may truly be termed original, were in all probability accidental. The fearfully amazed discoverer of fire has left the world his accomplishments but not his name; the originator of the bow and arrow has de- parted unknown; the inventor of the first crude water craft, as well as the first to put a sail to the wind, has been lost in obscurity; and the fabricator of the first rough and clumsy wheel from a tree trunk has passed on unreverenced. The debt that we owe these un- known, unsung, and unhonored genii, who are lost to the world forever, is perhaps our civilization, for with- out their primitive start we, too, would plod the paths of their progenitors. The brain behind the hand that developed, shaped and molded these crude, but nevertheless momentous, inventions into shapely, beautiful and intricate machines has evolved a language, a system of writing, and a sys- tem of mathematics — the language of the sciences. In their trail have followed the classical arts and the sciences — the foundation of modern engineering. KU ■ . At » £ (JQD.WM COOPER RIVER BRIDGE flh iHACtrin «

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