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Expand your views Directions: Read the following passages and try to know more about the topics concerned. Passage 1 Development of Engineering Until the Industrial Revolution there were only two kinds of engineers. The military engineer built such things as fortifications, catapults, and, later, cannons. The civil engineer built bridges, harbors, aqueducts, buildings, and other structures. During the early 19th century in England mechanical engineering developed as aseparate field to provide manufacturing machines and the engines to power them. The first British professional socie