7 wonders prt 3 - My favourates

I finished last week the BBC (true link) 7 wonders of the Industrial age. (Wiki) Totally recommend it .

The two that I enjoyed the most were:

1) The making of the Bell Rock lighthouse by Robert Stevenson

2) Making of London Sewers by engineer Joseph Baxalgette

Why were these my favorites?

For the following reasons:

1. The engineers who built these structures cared for there men. Some of the other projects many men dies. However both these projects the leader felt personally responsible for everyone on the project. Robert (lighthouse) pulled strings so the man who crushed his legs on the project was the first lighthouse keeper. And the boy (who was 16) that died, he employed his brother cause the family's dad was a POW so no source of income. The sewer man wrote individual letters of condolences to those wifes/family's of those killed on his project (even though technically it wasn't his fault)
2. They were dreamers, and ahead of their time. They both could see that it could be done, when others couldn't. The lighthouse man had plans and propses drawn up and it took at least 5 years before any work started. Mr sewerage spent 7 years in presenting and redrawing plans before any work was started. It was crises that caused the others to give the OK (and the crises would have been averted if they had been given the go ahead the first time)
   
3. They had a higher calling. The lighthouse man believed that he was doing God's work, hence he asked for the team to work on Sunday's. He believed that building lighthouses that saved peoples lives was a good and righteous callings. Mr sewage was doing this for the greater good and saving many peoples lives from the dreaded cholera
   
4. Saved peoples lives. Directly related to (3) they were working to make others lives better in the area that they were good at. Over 500 men dead on the reef the lighthouse was built on - and that was just one storm. Cholera killed 10 000's!
5. They did little things. I liked the fact that they were doing things that were not glamorous, nor dramatic. They were not making some massive public work, nor some edifying in the public eye monument. They were doing boring and mundane things, sewage and lighting, yet they managed to make it a divine and holy calling.
   
6. Still impacts people today. The lighthouse is still standing, and it is still working today. London's sewage still uses the old tunnels, though due to population increase it is now only a small % that flows through these older tunnels.
   

So in summary
These are all traits that I would love to apply to my work
Some of them I already do
And the others I will do with my book writing

For those with an engineering bent and are dreamers, these video's should be recommended viewing.