Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
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Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and Architecture was designed as an aid for the general reader who has an interest in architecture, engineering and technology as well as for the experienced architect, engineer or technician.

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

Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
Illustrated by Andrew Slocombe

Practically Speaking is a book of quotations. It provides the largest collection of quotations pertaining to engineering and technology yet published ( quotations from authors). Some quotes are profound, others are wise, some are witty but none are frivolous. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. You will find many of the `jewels' that exist but please forgive us if we've missed any personal favourites. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from actuaries to variability. This book will be a handy reference for the scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on engineering.

Readership: Professionals, teachers, students and general readers interested in Engineering. Engineers in a wide range of professions, Mathematicians, Statisticians and Scientists in particular will find the book a handy reference.

Contents: Analysis. Answer. Arch. Architect. Architecture. Assumption. Authority. Beauty. Bridge. Build. 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. Experiement, Facts. Failure. Fluid. Force. Forecast. Formula. Friction. Genius. Geology. Goal. Graphics. Gravity. Heat. Idea. Imagination. Impossible. Impression. Information, Innovation, Inspiration. Inventions. Inventor. Investigator. Judgment. Knowledge. Laws. Lever. Logic. Machine. Mathematics. Measurement. Mechanics. Method. Model. Mistake. Motion. Observation. Opinion. Patent. Persepctives. 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. Thermodynamics. Theorem. Time. Tool. Train Engineer. Truth. Tunnel. Weight. Bibliography. Permissions. Subject by Author Index. Author by Subject Index

January 1999
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, England
ISBN 0-7503-0594-0 (alk. paper)
Description xv, 367 p. : ill. ; 234 x 156mm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-295) and indexes
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Paperback Price: £19.95/US$24.99


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