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Accessible to general readers as well as practitioners, this volume presents brief biographies of 32 outstanding American civil engineers from the late 1700s to the present. Organized into eight chronological sections, the profiles offer personal information, along with commentary by the subjects on issues such as why they became civil engineers and how the profession might be improved. Many of the biographies appeared previously in Weingardt's "Engineering Legends" column in the American Society of Civil Engineers' Leadership and Management in Engineering journal from 1999 to 2004. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Christopher ROOP
reviewed Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers: (32 Profiles of Inspiration and Achievement) on May 03, 2018
Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers: (32 Profiles of Inspiration and Achievement)
Well, as far as a biography goes, there isn't all that much and what there is, is only adding to the impression of a somewhat disjointed personality.
The impression this book left me was an attempt to set the record straight, which is never a good thing in a biography.
Writing-wise the book is awful. Repetition ad nauseam, boasting, etc. We don't really get to know the man behind all those achievements, that is, the universal remote control, Apple I, Apple II, Apple III (Ahem, sorry, my mistake, this one was "invented" by a committe lead by Steve Jobs, ah ah).
If you're really interested to know the Wozniak's personal take on the "invention" of the personal computer, go ahead and read it. If not, there's already a all bunch of information on the web, where the record is already straight...
Stick to it.
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