"It would be more difficult to find a site more annoying to an engineer, whose chief business to economise labour, that than of the men who are scattered in twos and threes through Dublin, sometimes working, sometime wandering wandering their brushes on their shoulders, and sometimes, when they have nothing else to do, sweeping there mud into heaps. ... It is ridiculous to expect that men will work hard to sweep mud off the streets when they know perfectly well that it will be left there, and that in a week or ten days they will have the chance of sweeping it up again."
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Cited by Cox and O'Dywer (2014) from McDonnell's presidential address to the ICEI on 16 February 1876.
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Alexander McDonnell (engineer)
Alexander McDonnell (18 December 1829 – 14 December 1904) was an Irish locomotive and civil engineer. A mathematics graduate from in 1851, he brought order and standardisation to the workshops and locomotive designs of the of Ireland. He served as president of the (ICEI) from 1875 to 1877.
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