Excerpt from Applied Science, Vol. 4: Incorporated With Transactions of the University of Toronto Engineering Society; November '10 to April '11 Advancing civilization has so complicated man's require ments and multiplied the field of endeavor of the man whose profession of old was confined in the army to the handling of artillery. And in civil life to the construction of roads. Bridges, buildings. And steam engines, that perhaps a good definition to day of an engineer would be a man who does things.' 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.