The engineer the translator of science

Engineering may be defined as the art of making Nature obedient. There are, therefore, as many fields of engineering as there are phases of natural phenomena. A few years ago our limited physical insight did not fully disclose the close relationship that binds all phenomena together. We seemed to think that electrical engineering was a limited subject — that the electrical engineer pursued a certain set of phenomena which he, so to speak, owned; but now with our wider vision we realize that by whatever surname he be classified, he deals with such varied and universal phenomena that he must be known by a broader and more comprehensive title. To me, he seems the translator of science, his art being to apply the isolated discoveries of the scientific investigator to the affairs of every-day life.