Introduction to the specialty. Mechanical engineering. Textbook for SPO

The book is devoted to currently relevant topic - the history of engineering activity and its role in modern culture. She introduces the reader to the place of engineer-builder in the system of social production, his functions and tasks. Such a view of the engineering profession today is necessary to increase the prestige of the engineering profession, which occupies a key place in the development of scientific and technological progress. A brief overview of the history of mechanical engineering, science on the processing of materials cutting, about metal -cutting tools and machines, automation of modern industrial production and the use of computer equipment in life.
A textbook will be useful to students of machine -building specialties of colleges