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There are several example in this story when the author was faced with huge job problems and must find solutions and then solve it-otherwise her career would be over.
One such problem was: how to design 3.5 miles "a spiral" for the Baltimore Subway, in Baltimore, Maryland. A company won a contract, or a bid — to design the Baltimore Subway. The problem was, they have no engineers who know how to design a subway's aerial structure- "a spiral." The...
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One Friday was my graduation day, I received my doctoral degree, or PhD. The next day, on Saturday, my then husband, Chrys, a physician, asked me to come to his office and see that is going on there. I was surprise, but went.
He confessed that he is running out of business. All his physicians’ friends already closed their offices. His accounts receivable had over $700,000 uncollectable debt. He already took a loan and hired 2 consultants to turn...
3) The Technological Invention that Shocked the World in the 20th Century. Or, the Russians Launched
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On October 4, 1957, history was, made. The Soviet Union Lunched Sputnik. Sputnik's impact on the world and the USA was colossal, impressive, and unprecedented.
And, the space programs and arms races between, the Soviet Union and the United States began. Find in this story how space programs and arms races produced the greatest inventions and innovations in human history. How thousands of them spilled into civilian industries. Long distance telecommunications,...
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It is a common knowledge that computers improved the quality of people’s life. Computers are one type of technology that contributed to total technological progress in the 2nd part of the 20th century. Technological progress even increased the people’s life expectancy.
At the beginning of the 20th century, for example in the USA, the life expectancy was 45 years. The majority of people were farmers performing hard manual jobs on their farms....
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What is engineering? Everything around us that are man-made and not by nature is- engineering. Engineers create national wealth and contribute to the development of civilization.
Their examples are starting from ancient engineering marvels: the pyramids of Egypt, the Acropolis and Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aqueducts and Coliseum, Mach Picchu, the Taj Mahal in India, the Great Wall of China, etc.
More recent great engineering projects are:...
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