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Originally posted by Asher
It is in no way technically impressive, it's impressive only on its large scale of a very dumb idea.
It is in no way technically impressive, it's impressive only on its large scale of a very dumb idea.
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Of course it is not technically impressive now, but it was very impressive back then.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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Re: Great Engineering Feats
Originally posted by VetLegion
This is inspired by the skyscraper thread. I always find reading about great engineering feats inspiring. I can spend quite some time reading about dams, bridges, towers and even highways if they're at least a bit "grande".
Any suggestions?
Three years ago the B.B.C. broadcast a series called 'The Seeven Wonders of the Industrial World'. It featured:
The Bell Rock Lighthouse
The 'Great Eastern'
Bazalgette's London sewers
The Transcontinental Railway
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Panama Canal
The Hoover Dam
There's also a book to accomany the boxed dvd set .
I'd also recommend 'Ancient Inventions' by Peter James & Nick Thorpe.Attached FilesVive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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GO ISKSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Re: Re: Great Engineering Feats
Originally posted by molly bloom
Three years ago the B.B.C. broadcast a series called 'The Seeven Wonders of the Industrial World'.
'twas good.
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Two beautiful creations in one photo ...
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and another of Brunel's bridge ...Attached FilesComment
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The Chunnel....
a financial nightmare but an engineering feat"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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It's either great engineering or great legerdemain:Attached FilesVive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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The first time I saw the Hoover Damn, I was really impressed.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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The mixing bowl in Virginia...Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
More seriously, I'm always impressed by highway interchanges. When I see one is when I feel most aware of mankind's organisational skills.Attached FilesI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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A monument to the waste of $20 billion in federal taxpayers' money.Originally posted by Japher
The new-ish freeway system in Boston is suppose to be impressive.
It's enough to make a man hope that Massachusetts doesn't get a dime of federal highway money for decades.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Keep the pics coming folks!
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