Engineering : The Industrial and Social Revolution

National Railway Museum - York, UK

It's Charles Dickens' anniversary, he the great novelist whose commentary on the social state in the industrial revolution, might have been interested to see how science and engineering turned out 112 years hence his famous novel about the industrial revolution.

With the huge development of the social networking jungle out their, I am pleased to see how engineers worldwide are adapting professional discussion groups to maintain a healthy interest in the development of Engineering Standards. How engineering itself has changed since its first real convocation during the Industrial Revolution where locomotives are named after the King, through to the Social Revolution.....