Jefferys J.B. The story of the Engineers, 1800-1945

Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1945. — 290 p.The Engineers have a history of which they have reason to be proud. It is in a part a story of the development of tools and technique in man’s age-long struggle to gain mastery over nature, in which struggle the achievements of the British engineer have won for him a lasting reputation on all part of the globe.