Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

The Science Museum has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Engineering to select a dozen of the most significant inventions from the past 60 years. Find out how these engineering feats have changed our world and benefited humanity.

Many of the 12 engineering feats we are celebrating are on display at the Science Museum. You can download a guide (PDF) to find out more about these objects and where to find them.

This project coincides with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering that will award £1 million to one spectacular feat of engineering that has most changed the world and benefited humanity. You can nominate your own engineering highlight - visit the website www.qeprize.org to see how to enter: qeprize.org/nominate

The "Create The Trophy" competition gives young people interested in science and art the opportunity to design the trophy for the Queen Elizabeth Prize, which will be presented by the Queen at Buckingham Palace in May 2013. Visit the website to find out more.

If this project has whetted your appetite and you'd like to find out even more about these fantastic engineering feats, here are some links to what some other people are saying about these inventions:

• Endgame for computing: the implications of autonomous systems

• Bringer of light: Charles Kao and the invention of optical fibres

• Godfrey Hounsfield and the CT scanner: footage in the 2012 MacRobert Award video

• After inventing the BBC Micro: what Steve Furber is working on now

• Tom Standage on the impact of the mobile phone

• Nigel Shadbolt on open data and the World Wide Web

• Academy warns of over-reliance on GPS

• DNA sequencing – public intrigued but cautious about synthetic biology in the first engagement study

• The next step in bridges: Scotland’s largest infrastructure project