History of engineering

Engineering in History

author

Richard Shelton Kirby - American professor of Engineering Drawing (1874-1964)

Overview of the book

Book offers a fascinating overview of the development of engineering in Western civilization, from its origins to the twentieth century. Implied throughout the text is the idea of technology as a creative near-artistic that plays a role in what author calls "the process of man's progressive self-liberation". The book is organized around the author's division into eight primary events:

• Food-producing revolution
• Appearance of urban society
• Birth of Greek science
• Revolution in power
• Rise of modern science
• Steam and the Industrial Revolution
• Electricity and the beginnings of applied science
• Age of automatic control

Chosen Chapter

Chapter Eleven: Electrical Engineering

Intro into the chapter

Three developments in nineteenth-century engineering have changed the ways of human life and altered the evolution of history. The first was the expansion of the Industrial Revolution. The second was the emergence of civilian engineering as a profession, bringing realization of the importance of scientific and technical education. The third and most important development was the introduction of a new method of approach to the achievement of engineering advances: the method of applied science. The subject of this chapter, the inception and growth of electrical engineering, is an outstanding example of this new and revolutionary method.

History of Electricity

Since from its very beginnings electrical engineering has been based on the science of electricity, it will be necessary to review the early development of man’s knowledge of electricity. Electricity is one of the youngest branches of physics.

Inventor of the air pump, Otto von Guericke, built the first electrical machine around the sixteenth century.

Francis Hauksbee at start of eighteenth century in England used a static electric machine with a spinning glass globe to conduct the first important electrical experiments.

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