Bridges Quote by Christopher Vokes

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

— Townsend Harris

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

— Barry Commoner

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

— Anonymous

“Greatest engineering achievements of 20th century ranked by National Academy of Engineering: 1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water supply and distribution 5.…

— Henry Petroski

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It was a marvel of mechanical engineering even if it shouldn’t be. By some standards it was thrown together. Constructed with a lack of…

— Tom Wood

I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“If you go back to a century ago, the major problems of electrical and mechanical engineering had to do with how to place a…

— Noam Chomsky

“The blitzkrieg is one of the best-known examples of a “military technical revolution”—and one of the most misunderstood by the general public. It is…

— Max Boot

World War II was a must win.

— Marv Levy

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton