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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 7 (October 2, 1939)

Artistic Engine-uity

Artistic Engine-uity.

To the average man who is only average, an engine is merely an agglomeration of revolving metal propelled by an invisible force of no special significance.

But, to the engineer, it is a monument to beauty and the poetry of motion. The engineer sees beauty in the blue blurr of a whirring wheel. The sheen of a well-oiled shaft and the pulsing rhythm of a piston are as the love of Mark Antony for Cleopatra or the Arab for his date hound. The whole of his being is enraptured by the exquisitry of balance, the per- page 61 fection of poise and the completeness of co-ordination which, blended in perfect harmony, constitute a work of beauty unrivalled by the gardens of Babylon.

Here are the same aesthetic ingredients as in the perfect pie—a sense of harmonious completeness and accord.