Geology and Engineering

Abstract

TRUE engineering is the attainment of the economic solution to the problems faced, and … the civil engineer seeks the co-operation of the geologist so that the best advantage can be taken of the rocks to be encountered. …” This quotation, which in the text refers to a particular branch of engineering construction, illustrates the author's point of view throughout his book. In order to demonstrate the value of geological and engineering co-operation, Prof. Legget has brought together for the civil engineer and the engineering student a large amount of well-illustrated descriptive material relating to engineering works, from many sources—American, British and Continental. It is one of the most valuable aspects of the book that the assembling of this data in one volume renders easily accessible a body of related facts which, in a border-line subject where science and art overlap and where no two works of construction are exactly alike, must otherwise be sought through an extensive literature.

Geology and Engineering

By Prof. Robert F. Legget. Pp. xviii + 650. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1939.) 22s. 6d. net.