Sources

Introduction: civil engineering

The general advancement of mechanical science …

Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1828)

broadbrush way of describing …; Architecture lacks the linearity …; Once we enter into …

Architect and engineer: a study in sibling rivalry, Andrew Saint

Chapter 1: Materials of civil engineering

Before the Roman came to Rye …

G.K. Chesterton

Chapter 2: Water and waste

Earth has not anything …

Upon Westminster Bridge, (3 Sept 1802) William Wordsworth

Chapter 3: ‘Directing the great sources of power in nature’

With the civil engineer …

Records of a family of engineers, Robert Louis Stevenson (1896) (unfinished)

Once did she hold …

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, (1802) William Wordsworth

It wasn’t the miles …

The tin roof blowdown. James Lee Burke 2007 (Phoenix)

Chapter 4: Concept – technology – realization

The paramount importance …

Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the twentieth century Peter Jones

Say not of me …

Poem XXXVIII, Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson (1887)

stout Cortez …

On first looking into Chapman’s Homer John Keats

Is then no nook …

On the projected Kendal and Windermere railway (12 Oct 1844) William Wordsworth

Chapter 5: Robustness

Soft sleep …

Rhinegold, Richard Wagner, translated Andrew Porter

Chapter 6: Civil engineering: looking forward

Giant steel columns …

Weapons of mass construction (Economist 3 December 2011)