Mechanical Engineering Principles

Description

Engineering is among the most important of all professions. It is the authors’ opinions that engineers save more lives than medical doctors (physicians). For example, poor water or the lack of it, is the second largest cause of human death in the world, and if engineers are given the tools, they can solve this problem. The largest cause of human death is caused by the malarial mosquito, and even death due to malaria can be decreased by engineers – by providing helicopters for spraying areas infected by the mosquito and making and designing medical syringes and pills to protect people against catching all sorts of diseases. Most medicines are produced by engineers! How does the engineer put 1 mg of ‘medicine’ precisely and individually into millions of pills, at an affordable price?

This book presents a solid foundation for the reader in mechanical engineering principles, on which s/he can safely build tall buildings and long bridges that may last for a thousand years or more. It is the authors’ experience that it is most unwise to attempt to build such structures on shaky foundations; they may come tumbling down – with disastrous consequences.