Sentence examples for astonishing engineering from inspiring English sources

The Aztec capital, built in the middle of Lake Texcoco and linked by causeways to the mainland, was itself an astonishing engineering achievement: it sustained a population estimated at 200,000.

At the turn of the 20th century, pioneering Chicagoans tamed the river in an astonishing engineering feat, reversing its flow to send pollution away from Lake Michigan, the city's source of drinking water.

THE subway system, which opened nearly 100 years ago, on Oct. 27, 1904, is one of New York's most astonishing engineering projects -- miles and miles of track strung through a dense network of building foundations, basements and water, gas, electric and sewage lines.

"We're still trying to achieve an astonishing global engineering adventure by getting the most advanced, straight-line racing car in history to a new land speed record.

The NEX-7 is an astonishing piece of engineering.

Camps like Striker are astonishing works of engineering costing millions of dollars.

All of these fundamental cellular functions occurring within a 5 nm thick film is an astonishing feat of engineering, made possible due to the interplay of a variety of intermolecular forces.

Considering the geography, the railway is an astonishing piece of engineering; though less impressive is the fact half of the men who were employed to build the line died during its construction.

"What those men did at Stalag Luft III was an astonishing feat of improvisational engineering," Dr. Hunt, 50, said in an interview at Cambridge's Trinity College.

It has several divisions, also doing quite astonishing work with biomedical engineering (turning CT and MRI scans into 3D models, allowing them to print, for example, personalised replacement hip joints).

It's an astonishing feat of art and engineering.