Materials whose primary historical significance is mechanical and structural engineering outside construction: metals and hard materials engineered chiefly for strength, wear resistance or mechanical performance in machines and tools. Belongs here: steel as the archetypal structural and machine metal, and tungsten carbide as a hard, wear-resistant tooling material. Does not belong here: construction-specific materials, grouped under Civil Engineering, or materials engineered chiefly for aerospace, electrical or general materials-science reasons, grouped under their own respective subcategories.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Mechanical engineering
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Mechanical engineering emerged as a field during the Industrial Revolution in Europe in the 18th century
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