Sentence examples for great engineering projects from inspiring English sources

Britain wasn't like this, says Foster, in the age of the great engineering projects.

A soaring pterodactyl-like structure, built on reclaimed land west of the city, it is one of the last great engineering projects of the 20th century.

The stench from the Thames caused politicians in Sir Charles Barry's then-new Houses of Parliament to adjourn proceedings in the summer of 1858 – and, soon after this so-called Great Stink, parliament sanctioned one of the century's great engineering projects: a new sewer network for London.

This article (part of the Science in the Industrial Revolution series) focuses on his first and last great engineering projects – the Thames Tunnel and the Great Eastern steam-ship.

In discussing the social dimension, the contribution will delineate the impact of the great engineering projects of the Renaissance on the formation of a new social group, dealing both with the practical problems and with the theory of nature.

Today's great engineering project, of which Amazon's Dynamo is but one manifestation, is to build a computing grid that can achieve similar breakthroughs in the processing and delivery of information.

At the start of the last century, the great engineering project was the creation of an electric grid that could deliver power to millions of users with a reliability and an efficiency that were previously unthinkable.

Fans of big engineering projects are cheering.

Indeed, it was at the height of the Great Depression that San Francisco undertook two great civil engineering projects, simultaneously constructing the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, completing them in 1936 and 1937 respectively.

The canal has been called the greatest civil engineering project in Europe from Roman times to the 19th century.

Lack of explicit value for ecosystem services has resulted in great damage being imposed on the poor when engineering projects of wealthy corporations impose externalities on local communities.