Sentence examples for engineering history from inspiring English sources

A unique collection, including engine models made by George Stephenson, Richard Trevithick and other giants of British engineering history, will be scattered at auction over the next few days, as the museum which houses them finally runs out of steam.

Some tea?" Royce murmured, "If your afternoon is free, I'd rather, much, make engineering history".

There are oddities of the Pulaski Skyway that speak to issues as serious as its structural soundness and its place in engineering history.

Covered bridge, timber-truss structure carrying a roadway over a river or other obstacle, popular in folklore and art but also of major significance in engineering history.

Professor Jorge Arenas of the Institute of Acoustics in Valdivia, Chile, said that the problem was serious but added that "NASA has developed one of the safest and risk-controlled space programs in engineering history".

"The men and women who developed the Hellcat and assembled them on the Buick line in Flint contributed a great deal to the war effort and to military engineering history," Mr. Gross said.

See also engineering; technology, history of.

Historians of technology have varied backgrounds including engineering, economic history, labor history, history of science, sociology, and social history.

First came the 2.7-mile-long Peak 2 Peak gondola, connecting high points on its twin mountains, Whistler and Blackcomb, and making civil-engineering history with its record unsupported span (1.8 miles) and gondola height (1,500ft above the ground).

Some reviewers of Ackroyd's "History of England" volumes have jumped on him for being flippant about facts — for instance, for ahistorically construing as "English" the various and sundry peoples who have inhabited the land now called England, reverse-engineering history to create a false narrative of continuity.

But he wanted to major in both engineering and history, with plans for medical school later.