The London sewerage system's
original Abbey Mills pumping station

British author Deborah Cadbury wrote Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, a book telling the stories of seven great feats of engineering of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2003 the BBC made a seven-part documentary series on the book, with each episode dramatising the construction one of the wonders. The seven industrial wonders are:

* SS Great Eastern
* Bell Rock Lighthouse
* Brooklyn Bridge
* London sewerage system
* First Transcontinental Railroad
* Panama Canal
* Hoover Dam