Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions, 1900
In looking round for a subject upon which to address you this evening, I have been led to take one that I think is of supreme interest to us as engineers, and although it may not possess the merit of being pleasing, is yet one which, as members of this Association, and on the still higher ground as members of the community, we ought to look fairly in the face and do all in our power to turn back the tide which threatens to overwhelm us. The title I have given to my address is, for want of a better one, Our Position as Engineers. There is a saying, proverb, motto, or whatever you may prefer to call it, which at one time was practically, if not strictly true, but to-day it is certainly not true; the saying I refer to is England the Workshop of the World. 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.
