Excerpt from An Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalIn England, the profession of the Civil ngineer was scarcely known until the middle of the last century, when the important discovery of the application of steam by James Watt, and its rapid development, called into existence a new class of mechanics, who gave a fresh impetus to manufactures by the improvement of all kinds of machinery. The vast commercial...
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