"Though I didn't end up becoming an engineer, knowing how to design an engine is interesting to know for my job today, " he suggests.

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Down 9-0, the Patriots came back, most impressively with a 96-yard drive Brady would engineer at the end of the half, part of what would be a Super Bowl record 16 straight completions.

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The big shift here for the tech savvy crowd is what we must recognize as the end of the era of the engineer.

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After the ninth end was blanked, Murdoch needed to engineer two shots in the 10th to win the match.

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To the end of his life, he called himself an engineer.

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At the opposite end of the savvy spectrum, Ari Shamash, a middle-aged engineer who led the hardware course, was accompanied by his own mother and father, septegenarians whose only exposure to technology has been through their son, even from a young age.

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Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.

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