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Alexander McDonnell Quotes

1829–1851

Alexander McDonnell (18 December 1829 – 14 December 1904) was an Irish locomotive and civil engineer. A mathematics graduate from Trinity College Dublin in 1851, he brought order and standardisation to the workshops and locomotive designs of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland.

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Learn French, and if possible German. Learn a little book-keeping, and become well acquainted with accounts, and the use they can be put to when properly kept. Without a knowledge of accounts, you will never be able to carry out large works with economy, or ever become thoroughly acquainted with the cost of work, which is of the first importance to an engineer.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander McDonnell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.