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William Hood
(4 Feb 1846 - 26 Aug 1926)
American civil engineer who designed California’s Tehachapi Loop, a spiral, part of 28 miles of railroad that snakes through the Tehachapi Pass between San Francisco and Los Angeles. T
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Science Quotes by William Hood (1 quote)
The essence of engineering consists not so much in the mere construction of the spectacular layouts or developments, but in the invention required—the analysis of the problem, the design, the solution by the mind which directs it all.
— William Hood
As quoted, “he said to the writer in effect,” Robert Fletcher, 'William Hood '67, Chief Engineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad Lines, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (1919), Vol. 11, 223.
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- 4 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Hood's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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