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Comments on a National Academy of Engineering, Frederick Seitz
Comments on a National Academy of Engineering, Frederick Seitz
Pages 47-53
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However, the opinion among some groups of engineers favoring such an academy has grown so great in the past five years that one group from the Engineers Joint Council approached the National Academy of Sciences about two years ago to ask if it would cooperate in formulating and launching a new academy. During the ensuing period the National Academy of Sciences has worked in cooperation with a committee of engineers appointed by the EJC to examine the feasibility of the plan and see just how cooperation could be established.
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Most members of society were technologists to some appreciable extent in spite of variations in aptitude. About 5,000 years ago, when our ancestors finally moved into the great rich delta lands of the river valleys, having developed extensive agriculture and elementary metal working, the engineering profession came into existence.
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One should add that the Greek scientists also contributed much understanding to the life sciences, including botany, anatomy, and medicine. The Romans, who were magnificent engineers, appreciated all aspects of Greek culture including science.
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For several hundred years the old Greek works were looked on principally as a vehicle for scholarly discussion and debate, often of a theological nature. In the fifteenth century, however, as the northern Europeans began to journey out of their own geographical world and the age of exploration began, science became the subject of new creative life.
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Lenses for spectacles had been made for several centuries before creative science got underway in western Europe. Once the laws of geometrical optics and ultimately of wave optics had been developed, however, the science not only altered the techniques for designing optical systems completely but also permitted an enormous extension of the range of use of optical equipment.
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In fact the great majority of the issues on which the government has requested the Academy to provide advice have been applied or technological in nature. Moreover, when the National Academy of Sciences proposed the establishment of the National Research Council in 1916 as part of its structure, the goal was to satisfy a request from the government that the Academy help our 52
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Jewett was president of the Academy during the highly critical years of World War II. It is my personal opinion that it would be a very great tragedy if the leaders of the National Academy of Engineering were to press for some form of dismemberment of the National Research Council soon after the new academy is formed, in order to acquire independent advisory activities rapidly on a large scale.
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