> I guess what I should have said is "there's no glory in an
> engineering job well done."
Not a helluva lot of money either. But it's really cool showing your
kids something you had a hand in. And truth to tell, I get a huge
amount of satisfaction in figuring out problems that baffle the laity.
>
> You can have a movie about a fighting attorney, winning a big case
> against the "evil corporations." But I suspect a story about a
> crusading structural engineer that "wins" against the "evil
> corporate building owner" to make sure a building is safe, won't
> get green-lighted in Hollyweird any time soon.
'China Syndrome' and 'No Island in the Sky' were a couple, although
James Stewart's character was bit bit loopier than I see myself. And
'Towering Inferno' pitted technical types against evil corporate owner.
> N.B. I dig the historical analogy.
Best I could do on short notice
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.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
1864)
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