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AN interesting feature of the progress of engineering science has been the gradual formation of the engineering vocabulary. Ever since the days of the early constructors there has been a steady application of fresh terms to technical practice, and it is not difficult to trace the methods by which this has taken place. But the process has operated to such an extent that what could almost be called a new language has arisen, and specimens could be quoted from the best examples of engineering literature which to scholars of a century ago would convey no meaning, though the origin of each individual term might be at once apparent to them.
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DOWNES-SHAW, A. Technical Terminology . Nature 75, 490–492 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075490a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075490a0