Washington Engineered - Hardcover

Vincent Lee-Thorp, a consulting mechanical and electrical engineer with projects in the White House, the Washington Monument, the Capitol, the FBI, several department buildings and 105 other buildings under the jurisdiction of the federal government obviously knows whereof he speaks and offers unique insights into the minds of the people who set up the new city for the new nation, designed the bridges, railroads and water supplies, somehow came up with that spectacular Capitol dome, and kept the entire construct going through fire, flood, civil war, expansion, changes in purpose, struggles for power and even the complexities of air conditioning. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"Washington Engineered" is the story of engineering in Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States of America, between the years of 1740 and 2000. It is a history of the way engineering influenced the thinking of early Europeans in England and France, the steps in the advancement of technology that led to the Industrial Revolution, and the colonization of America.