Engineering is a fundamental field of research and creation. Engineering originated in Europe and has spread throughout the world ever since. Big contributions to engineering have not mainly come from we, "The Americans," but from people across seas, such as the Europeans. This paper is to recognize these big contributions to engineering from around the world.
             "This country has imported theories from abroad and concentrated on its application to concrete and immediate problems, such as the case of the Atom bomb" (Science and Public Policy). Americans have made less than what they are expected to contribute to engineering. Instead Americans have showed how to apply pure science to engineering. This is what Americans are well known for and have been well known for. The Americans applied pure science to come up with the Atom bomb. Europeans are credited with fundamental engineering advances. "Nations depend upon one another for engineering advances" (Engineering in History). In other words, nations depend on each other to come up with new engineering plans to solve hectic problems that surround the engineering world today. The best way to find these "problem solvers" is through history. History is the way to finding out exactly what it is to be an engineer. "Engineers can accomplish what is expected of them because they are standing on the shoulders of men who have gone before them" (Engineering in History).
             Records show that history of engineering is showed as progressive and cumulative. "Progress indicates advances that are built upon and include previous existing knowledge" (Engineering in History). "Civil engineers are busying themselves with the art of the practical application of scientific and empirical knowledge to the design and production or accomplishment of various sorts of constructive projects, machines and materials of use or value to...