An artist can ‘conceptualize’ something new, but it takes engineers and testing to design and perfect new technology. Da Vinci’s famous notebooks are filled with all kinds of sketches. Jules Verne came up with the essentials of a nuclear submarine. But it took the Wright Brothers and some pretty thorough testing (wind tunnels, kite-versions) to do the spade work to make heavier-than-air flight a reality. And even they couldn’t have done it before gasoline-powered internal combustion engines had arrived (and they had only JUST arrived).
Good post. Engineering and its analytical formulas and tools are essential to practical applications of science and technology.