Table of Contents:
  • A personal perception of engineering / Edmund Happold
  • A short history of electrical communications / William Gosling
  • Paxton and prefabrication / Robert Thorne
  • Design, engineering and the art of drawing / Francis Pugh
  • The life-style of the Victorian engineers / R. Angus Buchanan
  • The railway engineers / Derek Walker
  • Developments of the use of materials in structures / James Sutherland
  • Sir Joseph Bazalgette and public health engineering / Denis Smith
  • The strange case of the Duke of Wellington's funeral car / Christopher Frayling
  • Construction as a prime export / Don Holland
  • The Sydney Opera House / Derek Walker
  • The engineering of architecture / James Gowan
  • The engineer as architect : Sir Owen Williams / Frank Newby and David Cottam
  • The North Sea challenge / Edmund C. Hambly
  • Services and structure : the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank / Derek Walker.
  • The grim tale of the channel tunnel / Donald Hunt
  • Intelligent buildings for the future / Max Fordham
  • Research and product development : glass / Alastair Pilkington
  • Today's engineers : the legacy lives on / Derek Walker
  • Solid state technology : the stimulus of electronics / John C. Bass.