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He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

Henry R. Towne

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Henry R. Towne
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: August 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 15
Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Henry Robinson Towne
Henry Towne
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The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.
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