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Prompt: This engineering system supports loads with a steel skeleton, enabling buildings far taller than masonry alone.
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  1. 01This engineering system supports loads with a steel skeleton, enabling buildings far taller than masonry alone.
  2. 02These systems carve passageways through earth or rock, enabling routes through mountains or beneath water.
  3. 03These systems control intersection flow, with the first electric signal appearing in the early 1900s.
  4. 04These systems dispense products automatically after payment, among the earliest forms of unattended retail.
  5. 05This engineering system, also called additive manufacturing, builds objects layer by layer from a digital design.