Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Eugene S. Ferguson
Born: 1916
Died: March 21, 2004 (aged 88)
Bio: Eugene Shallcross Ferguson was an American engineer, historian of technology and professor of history at the University of Delaware, particularly known for his 1992 work Engineering and the Mind's Eye.
Known for:
- Engineering and the Mind's Eye (1992)
- Truxtun of the Constellation (1956)
- Bibliography of the history of technology (1968)