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Automotive

Lighting the way with solar-powered cars

Aerospace

This week in 1950: the De Havilland Comet

Energy & environment

Black gold mine

Rail & marine

Subsea saviours

Civil & structural

This week in 1885: The Forth Bridge

Aerospace

Red-rock return

Inside the mine of the future

Aerospace

June 1944: The chicken cannon

Behind the scenes at McLaren Applied Technologies

Civil & structural

January 1893: The cross channel bridge

Aerospace

Dr Rafal Zbikowski on emulating flapping insect flight

Civil & structural

High technology: engineering London's "Shard"