The role of the engineering profession in the development of civilization

Abstract

For many centuries, even millennia before the social mode of production made possible and necessary the emergence of engineers in the full sense of the word, people faced engineering problems and individuals were able to solve them. After all, human civilization is based on the transformation of the natural world with the help of tools, that is, a set of various technical means. The history of engineering activity is relatively independent; it cannot be reduced to either the history of technology or the history of science. Its roots are lost in the depths of the past millennia.