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they rest begin to look alike to an engineer like William Mulholland, he himself should question
his own expertise. As
Engineering News-Record
put it just two months after the disaster, “Had the
plan of construction used for the St. Francis Dam been brought forward by some comparatively
inexperienced engineer, or had the work been done by contract or under any other condition that
would naturally have brought independent engineering opinion into the case, it is highly probable
that some modified plan would have been substituted and the disaster avoided.” Experience alone
is not always the best teacher.
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