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| Author: | Bozzoli, GR |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Title: | Forging ahead : South Africa's pioneering engineers |
| Place: | Johannesburg |
| Publisher: | Witwatersrand University Press |
South Africa has had its fair share of outstanding engineers, some of whom were attracted from other countries by the daunting problems of communications by road and rail in an undeveloped land, and later by the explosive growth of industry sparked off by the exploitation of diamonds and gold. Others were born and grew up in this country and used their skills and the training they received here and abroad to build up the engineering structures we have today. In this fascinating collection, Professor GR Bozzoli, himself one of South Africa's leading teachers of engineering, looks at the lives and work of a selection of the country's engineering greats - from road builders Andrew Geddes Bain and his son, Thomas, in the early nineteenth century, to twentieth-century innovators like Nico Sutterheim, GB Lauf and TL Wadley. The categories he tackles include railways and harbours, surveying, mining, civil engineering, steel, telecommunications power and aeronautics. (Front dustcover) | |
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