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Ove Arup did more than please the penguins at London Zoo For a start, he designed outrageously priced chess sets and bequeathed an unusual name to the already impoverished lexicon of 鈥渧ery famous engineers of the 20th century鈥�. In a collection of reviews to mark the centenary of Arup鈥檚 birth (Institution of Civil Engineers, 拢9.95 pbk, ISBN 0 7277 2066 X), friends and colleagues devote more space to his other achievements. But it was the Penguin Pool that caused him to be hailed as the inventor of reinforced concrete.