Narration was good and not over monotone in its delivery. It's not easy to retain engagement without the voices and accents more usual in works of fiction, but it retained my interest.

Always difficult to produce an audiobook version of a non-fiction book which is packed with photographs and diagrams as so much is lost. What remains is a useful introduction to the lives of some of the greatest thinkers and engineers in history. This is more of a starting point to examine the lives of those who capture the reader/listener's imagination as a few pages/minutes cannot really do justice to most of the subjects. Even reducing the number to say 25 wouldn't have a material improvement, so in the end I think it has been pitched about right. The reader can then search out more detailed works on those engineers they found most interesting.

The selection covers the ages, from Egyptian pyramid builders through to the modern day, and includes a number of women in what might be considered a male profession. The selection demonstrates the real changes over time of the engineers themselves. The Greek and Roman were largely mathematicians and philosophers, next the Renaissance were polymaths with arts and design combining. Next come the experimenters in the natural sciences who are followed by the titans of the Industrial Revolution through to modern engineering and specialism.

With any 'greatest' book like this there will be few arguments over those who are included, its more a case of those who weren't. Personally I found the selection excellent and informative, I was just a little surprised at the lack of 20th/21st chemical and computer engineering figures.

A good audiobook but the concept works much better as a physical book.

Many thanks to the authors, publisher and Net Galley for making this work available in exchange for a fair review.

Interesting, but a bit dry and repetitive.
I liked that they told you about all different kinds of engineering.
But it is probably better to read this on paper and have pictures etc. and not read everything at once but an engineer a day or something like that.