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New on engineering timelines
In the Press
Time To Go Back
New Civil Engineer • 6 May 2010
To celebrate our 1000th entry in the online database,
New Civil Engineer devotes a page to Engineering Timelines. The 100th entry is
Mulberry harbour pierhead fendering, engineered by
Ove Arup, the subject of our recent biography.
Tay Bridge Tale
New Civil Engineer • 28 February 2008
New Civil Engineer publishes
Nayef Mohyud-Din's winning essay from the Historic Disasters writing competition. You can read his and the runner-up essays on our
results page >
NCE & ET Disaster Competition Winner Announced
New Civil Engineer • 21 February 2008 • unattributed
New Civil Engineer announces the winner of the
NCE/engineering timelines Historic Distasters writing competition.
Historic Disasters Challenge
New Civil Engineer • 14 October 2007 • unattributed
New Civil Engineer announces the
NCE/engineering timelines new writing competition. The idea is to write up to 500 words on a UK engineering disaster. Judges: Mark Whitby (engineering timelines), Mike Chrimes (ICE's head of knowledge transfer) and Antony Oliver (NCE's editor).
Off to a Flying Start
New Civil Engineer • 5 / 12 April 2007 • unattributed
New Civil Engineer publishes the results of the
NCE/engineering timelines Thomas Telford 250 writing competition and the essay by winner, Catherine Bottoms. You can read the winning and runner-up essays
on our
results page >
Engineering Heritage Goes Online
Ingenia • issue 30, March 2007 • unattributed
The Royal Academy of Engineering's magazine,
Ingenia, notes the attention paid to
engineering timelines by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Heritage, quoting their report, which states that the site "... is a very interesting example of how science and technology can be used to improve access to, and understanding of our cultural heritage, as it both shows how our scientific, technological and engineering heritage can be preserved and how we can use technology - namely IT - to enable that."
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