Excerpt from Engineers and Their Triumphs: The Story of the Locomotive, the Steamship, Bridge Building, Tunnel Making The four departments chosen have been selected not in pursuance of any comprehensive plan, but because they present some of the more striking features of. Constructional effort. The term Engineering, however, includes the design and supervision of numerous works, such as roads and canals, docks and break waters, machinery and mining, as well as steam engines and steamships, bridges and tunnels. 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.