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Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail-... are rather invention than engineering proper.
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To define it rudely but not inaptly, [engineering] is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
December 20, 1847
Died:
May 17, 1895
(aged 47)
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Arthur Mellen Wellington was an American civil engineer who wrote the 1887 book The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways. The saying that An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two is attributed to him.
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ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE LOCATIO
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