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October 1970 | Volume 21, Issue 6
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October 1970 | Volume 21, Issue 6
The civil engineer is often fingered these days as Ecological Enemy No. 1 for his enthusiastic participation m the rape of the environment. But to an earlier, less beset society, with fewer people and afar less potent technology, the engineer was more than a popular hero; he was the epitome of an age. The conquest of nature was the national ambition, and the civil engineer was the man who kept the state of the Union up to the state of the art. In 1966 the American Society of Civil Engineers began a project to designate surviving souvenirs of the fruitful nineteenth-century collaboration between engineering and entrepreneurship. Included in the list of seventeen railroads, canals, bridges, tunnels, and dams so far designated: