Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Rosie Revere, Engineer
The Industries of the Future
The Most Magnificent Thing
The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Bring Me a Rock!
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
The Design of Everyday Things
Brave New World
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
The Art of Electronics
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Code Complete
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingTubes by Andrew  BlumHow the Internet Works by Preston GrallaThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. ZittrainJulian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography by Julian Assange
The Internet (Non-Fiction)
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Science Writing
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Wanna be a Chemical Engineer?
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Ayn Rand
“ I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. ”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Henry Ford
“ When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway. ”
― Henry Ford

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