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IN his capacity as the head of the oldest and most famous engineering institution in the world, the president of the Institution of Civil Engineers occupies a position of undisputed authority, the realization of the character of which has led successive presidents to deliver addresses which, taken collectively, constitute a history of engineering. Some of these addresses have been confined to the particular branch to which the speaker has devoted his life, others contain surveys of many branches, while others again contain valuable autobiographical or biographical sketches. Few of the addresses are not without permanent interest, and some thirty years ago Engineering referred to the whole as being to the Institution “a heirloom left it by the many great men who helped so devotedly to build up the position of our Empire”.
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Engineering and Empire Development. Nature 138, 1038–1039 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381038a0
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