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The Essence of Engineering:

This supplement goes in search of 'elegant efficiency' with Pryce & Myers.

AJ readers were asked to nominate what they deemed to be the 'essence of engineering' and the results are surprising. With only the work of nature being excluded the entries where diverse and far ranging and included such examples as the Jet Engine the Lovell Telescope & the Panama Canal amongst many others.

This resulting supplement shows of a selection of images of seminal moments in engineering and puts thoughts some thoughts on what constitutes the 'Essence of Engineering'.

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