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In Reply to: RE: Stradivarius posted by uncle mag on December 12, 2014 at 10:18:03
Antonio Stradivari took an apprenticeship with Nicola Amati aged 12-14 and made the first instrument bearing his name aged around 22 which puts him firmly into the 'engineer' category.
Amati also taught Antonio Guarneri and Amati himself came from a long family tradition of instrument makers.
Engineers everyone of them. Engineers have shaped human endeavour since at least babylonian times.
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Granted, and saved countless lives along the way to building our civilization.
To be fair engineers ended at least as many lives as they saved by designing and building weapons and other machinery of war.
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