Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
Bit of thread drift if I may. When doing my family history I discovered that my great great grandfather's profession was given as "engineer"
As I posted earlier, I think you need a degree to be a true engineer and I don't think, could be shot down here, that the universities offered engineering degrees until the early 20th. century. Maths, physics and chemistry were offered in the mid 19th. but not engineering. So what defined an engineer in the 1850s is debatable. As an aside, it does make you wonder about Brunel, Watt, Stevenson and the like?