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Byline: Stephen Bayley

There is a literary prejudice against engineers which has retarded the vitality of national culture on many occasions in the past, but not on this page. For instance, A N Wilson, a commentator of genius and a novelist of talent, does not include a single reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel in his Faber Book of London (1993), although he finds space for Descartes and Trotsky. Strange, such prejudice from a writer, because engineering has been described (by the engineer Ove Arup) as "a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate ...