MEM 2221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sylvanus Thayer, United States Military Academy, Chausses
11 Dec 2019
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Latin word ingenium - talent, natural capacity, clever invention. Early applications of clever inventions were military related. 1716 - corps des ponts et chauss es, a civilian engineering corps to design and construct roads and bridges. 1747 - ecole des ponts chauss es, train the members of the above corps. The study of mathematics and physics were applied to roads, bridges, canals, water supply, mines, fortifications and manufacturing. 1974 - ecole polytechnique, technical school under the revolutionary government. 1890 - schools added mechanical science to their classics studies. 1909 - oxford established a chair in engineering science. The industrial revolution began in england but knowledge was passed by apprenticeship. Revolutionary war - early colleges focused more on the classics, french engineers were borrowed to build/destroy military roads, bridges and fortifications, engineers were scarce. 1817 - fewer than 30 identified as engineers during the construction of the erie. World war i - apprenticeship model adopted, engineers learn on the job .
