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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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Born: December 20, 1847
Died: May 17, 1895 (aged 47)
Bio: 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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  1. ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE LOCATIO

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