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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century http://www.greatachievements.
org/ (accessed October 20, 2010). “This site is sponsored by the National Academy of
Engineering. This project is a collaboration of the American Association of Engineering
Societies, National Engineers Week, with 27 other professional engineering societ-
ies. The overarching criterion used was that those advancements had made the great-
est contribution to the quality of life in the past 100 years. Even though some of the
achievements, such as the telephone and the automobile, were invented in the 1800s,
they were included because their impact on society was felt on the twentieth century”
(from Webpage).
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