The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one…

- Henry R. Towne

The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly a…

- Henry R. Towne

The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an …

- Henry R. Towne

He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needless…

- Henry R. Towne

A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the ch…

- Henry R. Towne