"...many engineers in Canada wear an iron ring on their little finger, which is conferred during a ceremony called “The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer” (developed in 1925 by Rudyard Kipling). The ring is a symbol of the Pont de Québec Bridge, which collapsed in 1907 as it was nearing completion, killing seventy-six people. A subsequent Royal Commission declared that errors committed by the bridge’s principal engineers were the primary cause of the tragedy...."
http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/2011/09/professional-ethics.html -- Sandwichman
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