Well Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island” awakened all sorts of engineering thinking in me when I was very little.
My parents were believers in not reading children’s books but actual novels to me, at ages 4+ and they went through most of Verne’s novels, but I will never forget that particular one.
Bootstrapping civilization from literally nothing to gunpowder, steam engines and telegraphs was mesmerizing. I think this was the time I decided I wanted to get involved in engineering in general. I mean McGyver is nice and all but I’ve not seen anything come close to scope and ingenuity as a literary work since.
My parents were believers in not reading children’s books but actual novels to me, at ages 4+ and they went through most of Verne’s novels, but I will never forget that particular one.
Bootstrapping civilization from literally nothing to gunpowder, steam engines and telegraphs was mesmerizing. I think this was the time I decided I wanted to get involved in engineering in general. I mean McGyver is nice and all but I’ve not seen anything come close to scope and ingenuity as a literary work since.