"Have you ever paused to take a really good look at
some great engineering achievement? Have you ever noted the details of a
soaring bridge structure, the supports that go deep into the river bed,
the abutments, the smooth and graceful approaches? Have you ever marveled
at the intricate network of a petroleum refinery outlined against a sunset
sky? Have you paused at the top of a dam, viewing the wide deep lake where
once was dry ground, gazing, on the other side, to where, far below, foams
the now indolent tailwater that has completed its plunge through penstocks
and turbines and created in spinning generators the impulses that flow
invisibly along the wires that swoop from tower to steel lacy tower as far
as the eye can reach? Do you always take these things for granted or do
you sometimes view them with new eyes and ask yourself how wonders like
these could be wrought by men?
If you have never asked that question, it is high time you did."
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