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Practically speaking : a dictionary of quotations on engineering, technology, and architecture
- Title
- Practically speaking : a dictionary of quotations on engineering, technology, and architecture / selected and arranged by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither ; illustrated by Andrew Slocombe.
- Publication
- Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TA9 .P73 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Practically Speaking is a book of quotations on engineering, technology and architecture. It brings together for the first time in one easily accessible form over 1100 quotes especially illuminating and pertinent to these disciplines. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or entertainment. This book can be read for pleasure or used as a handy reference by student and professional engineers and the wider public interested in who has said what on engineering, technology and architecture.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- dictionaries.
- Dictionaries.
- Dictionnaires.
- Anthologie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Analysis -- Answer -- Arch -- Architect -- Architecture -- Assumption -- Authority -- Beauty -- Bridge -- Build -- Builder -- 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 -- Experiment -- 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 -- Mistake -- Model -- Motion -- Observation -- Opinion -- Patent -- Perceptions -- Perspectives -- 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 -- Theorem -- Thermodynamics -- Time -- Tool -- Train engineer -- Truth -- Tunnel -- Weight.
- ISBN
- 0585351465
- 9780585351469
- 0750305940
- 9780750305945
- LCCN
- 98046032
- OCLC
- ocm39914094
- 39914094
- SCSB-568058
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library