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UNIVERSITY SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA

ENGINEERING FACULTY

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

TECHNICAL ENGLISH























Engineering











Names:Sergio Renato Castillo Echeverría

Bryan Castañón

Pedro Luis Contreras Sagastume

José Daniel Hernández Flores

Nilza Pastor Hernández

ID:201212519













Teacher: Vivian Cano

Date: 05/03/2012




History of engineering

Engineering before the Scientific Revolution.

The forerunners ofengineers, practical artists and craftsmen, proceeded mainly by trial and error. Yet tinkering combined with imagination produced many marvelous devices. Many ancient monuments cannot fail to inciteadmiration. The admiration is embodied in the name “engineer” itself. It originated in the eleventh century from the Latin ingeniator, meaning one with ingenium, the ingenious one. The name, used forbuilders of ingenious fortifications or makers of ingenious devices, was closely related to the notion of ingenuity, which was captured in the old meaning of “engine” until the word was taken over bysteam engines and it’s like. Leonardo da Vinci bore the official title of Ingegnere General. His notebooks reveal that some Renaissance engineers began to ask systematically what works and why.Engineering the Industrial Revolution.

The first phase of modern engineering emerged in the Scientific Revolution. Galileo’s Two New Sciences, which seeks systematic explanations and adopts ascientific approach to practical problems, is a landmark regarded by many engineer historians as the beginning of structural analysis, the mathematical representation and design of building structures.This phase of engineering lasted through the First Industrial Revolution, when machines, increasingly powered by steam engines, started to replace muscles in most production. While pulling off the...