history through development of clean and safe water and
sanitation systems
• In a nutshell, Civil engineering is the
application of physical and scientific
principles, and its history is intricately
linked to advances in understanding of
physics and mathematics throughout
history.
• Because civil engineering is a wide ranging profession, including
several separate specialized subdisciplines, its history is linked to
knowledge of structures, materials science, geography, geology,
soils, hydrology, environment, mechanics and other fields.
HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING• Ever since the dawn of civilization, man has indulged in some form of construction activity. Even in ancient times, man created architectural marvels which came to be regarded as the wonders of the world, for example the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Angkor temples of Cambodia and the Tower of Babel. • The pyramid of Giza in Egypt contains more than 2,000,000 blocks with an average weight of about tons each. About 100,000 persons worked on the pyramids for three to four months a year to build it in about 20 years. • The Great Wall of China, built to provide protection against surprised enemy raids, is about km long and its height and width at the top varies from 5 to metres. It has several high towers placed every few hundred meters.
HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING• In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of Share with your friends: |
