Sentence examples for a wonder of engineering from inspiring English sources

The road is a wonder of engineering in itself, as it winds its way 500m above the sea, revealing jaw-dropping vistas round every bend.

It will look no more like one of those "skeleton" clocks the shop used to sell, its inner workings proudly on show – the stock check, the glimpses of attendants ferrying boxes around, the whir of the mini printer giving them the next order – as if its peculiar mechanism were a wonder of engineering.

Gliding forward mile after mile, it is easy to forget the challenge, and the loss of life in creating such a wonder of engineering.

Each had been a massive undertaking, a wonder of modern engineering, and if there were canals on Mars … well, surely there must be canal builders as well.

The complex is a wonder of chemical engineering that has 6.5 million miles of pipe, employs more than 8,000 people and consumes enough electricity to power a city of three million people.

Built for the private London Power Company, and, from 1948, by the state-owned British Electric Authority, this compelling temple of power was a wonder of architecture and engineering as well as of science and technology: at its zenith, in the 1950s, it produced a fifth of all London's electricity, with 28 smaller power stations providing the rest.

Our colleagues at BBC Culture look back at the classic D-Type, "a wonder of style and engineering".

A wonder of 19th Century engineering Jump to media player BBC Four's Mechanical Monsters takes a close look at one of Bazalgette's giant steam pumps.

The trail starts at Corpach in the south, at the bottom of an impressive series of lochs called Neptune's Staircase, a wonder of Thomas Telford's Victorian engineering.

and more typically made of foam, this little wonder of engineering performs three services it keeps your beverage cold, fingers warm and a ring off the coffee table.

On the ground, however, this wonder of engineering and aeronautical excellence encountered one adversary it could not overcome: relevance.