| Abstract: | British engineering is in the doldrums. It no longer has the glamorous self-confidence that it enjoyed in the Victorian era. In comparison with France, Germany and the USA, grand engineering schemes in Britain are realized only very painfully, if at all. The link between technologists and planners and the national policy-making machinery (government) that Telford and Brunel enjoyed has to a large extent been severed. The academically bright tend to avoid engineering because it is not generally recognised to be an intellectual pursuit. |
