Creation and Application of Chronological Tables for the History of Civil Engineering with Relational Database

Abstract

This paper presents a new database for the history of civil engineering. This database for personal computer enables the user to compile various chronological table.
This database covers almost all of the chronological tables of the history of civil engineering provided by Japanese investigators, and contains more than 3000 items which are classified by subjects. Through the function of data-processing available in a personal computer, choosing some keywords or some specified theme, various chronological table can be made easily.
This paper shows some examples of the chronological tables and attempts to describe the history of civil engineering from a new aspect.