Posted by Karyudo on 11/11/06 05:35

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:06:23 GMT, "JerrySmith'sTightEnd"
<jhgfjh@hjhg.com> wrote:

>
>"Karyudo" <karyudo_usenet@yahoo.com.remove.me> wrote in message
>news:h038l25f82mhivmvn58hh89lksaqv2hnv6@4ax.com...
>>>> Science...the thing that brought us computers,
>>>> airplanes and televisions.
>>
>> Actually, science brought us semiconductors, manometers, and cathode
>> rays. Yawn.
>>
>> It's *engineering* that brought us computers, airplanes, and
>> televisions.
>
>Spoken like an engineer!

Damn right! Most of the cool things people attribute to "scientists"
are actually attributable to engineers. Science is, of course, the
basis for engineering. Without good science, there would be nothing to
apply to practical problems, and nothing to commercialize. But
"scientists" aren't responsible for items like the automobile, or the
airplane, or the telephone, or the CD. All those things took
reasonably well-known scientific ideas, and applied them creatively
(or systematically) to solve practical problems. There isn't a much
better definition of engineering than that.

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