"engineer" is also the word for a locomotive
As a child, late 50's, I always wanted to work on and be around trains and
that was what the person in the locomotive was called, an 'engineer'
Also there was the 'Conductor', nothing to do with thermodynamics or
electricity. Maybe the flow of people and goods between two points.
Ken
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:30 AM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Uwe Klein wrote:
Elon is a fan of the "Build it, run it, break it, fix it, run it again",
rinse and repeat approach.
For much of engineering history that I recall, that was "Standard
Operating Procedure"...
if your "engineers" were raised from Tradespersons.
Historically, there was no sharp distinction between the two. (Which is
why, in English at least, "engineer" is also the word for a locomotive
driver or the head of a ship's propulsion operators.) Only in recent
times has it been possible to be an engineer without ever getting oil on
your hands.
Henry