The Engineer is a London-based fortnightly magazine covering the latest developments and business news in engineering and technology in the UK and internationally. Founded in January 1856, it is among the world's oldest professional journals.

The Engineer was established by Edward Charles Healey, an entrepreneur and engineering enthusiast with financial interests in the railways whose friends included Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...

 and Isambard Brunel

Isambard Brunel

Isambard Brunel may refer to:* Sir Marc Isambard Brunel * Isambard Kingdom Brunel...

. The journal set out to chronicle and explain the vast array of technical developments underway during Britain's Victorian age of innovation.
Before the end of the 19th century The Engineer had already covered events such as Bessemer's process for the manufacture of steel, the invention of the telephone

Telephone

The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

 and the light developed by Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

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Over the following century and a half The Engineer reflected not just the rapid advance of engineering and technology, but also the history of Great Britain. For example, its early years recorded many of the huge and ambitious projects carried out throughout the British Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...

. By the Second World War, the magazine was focused on the role of engineers in the darkest hours of Britain's battle for survival against Nazi Germany, for example through the Rolls-Royce Merlin

Rolls-Royce Merlin

The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled, V-12, piston aero engine, of 27-litre capacity. Rolls-Royce Limited designed and built the engine which was initially known as the PV-12: the PV-12 became known as the Merlin following the company convention of naming its piston aero engines after...

 Engine developed to power the RAF's Spitfire

Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s...

 fighter plane.

Along the way The Engineer covered some of modern history's landmark events, including the sinking of The Titanic the development of television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, the launch of Sputnik and the Anglo-French co-operation that led to Concorde

Concorde

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...

. The Engineer website features many of these contemporary articles.

The Engineer and its website The Engineer Online http://www.theengineer.co.uk cover technological innovations and their applications across a wide range of disciplines and industries, including; aerospace, communications and defence. The magazine and the website also include jobs sections for professional engineers and graduates. They are published by London-based Centaur Media plc

Centaur Media

Centaur Media is a London-based business-to-business magazine and ditigal publishing group, formed in 1981, and incorporated as a public limited company. Flagship titles include Marketing Week, The Lawyer and Creative Review.-External links:*...

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