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Category of curiosities about engineering.
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Standing as tall as a thirty-story building with a titanic bucket wheel, this German machine moves mountains while consuming the electricity of a city.
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Suspended between floors 87 and 92, this steel mass acts as an inertial counterweight that dampens the swaying of the Taiwanese colossus without using electricity.
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To prevent the immense terminal from snapping in two due to seabed subsidence, engineers turned its foundation into a colossal moving puzzle.
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A masterpiece of Scottish engineering that uses Archimedes' principle to lift boats 24 meters high.
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The colossal 9.7-kilometer Malaysian engineering feat that clears vehicular traffic in minutes to channel three million cubic meters of floodwaters.
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The colossal hydraulic work of submerged pneumatic barriers on the seabed that inflate with air to stop high tide.
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
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How an innovative trench of liquid clay and concrete created a one-kilometer underground shield to hold back water pressure.
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From the subsoil of major cities to deep mines, engineers cool the earth to sub-zero temperatures to excavate without collapsing cities.
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The ingenious passive geotechnical solution that prevents more than 500 kilometers of tracks from sinking into mud during the summer thaw.
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At nearly one kilometer long, this viaduct crosses the Elbe River thanks to an ingenious physical principle: the structure weighs exactly the same whether ships are crossing it or not.
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In 1978, an overlooked calculation revealed that a moderate hurricane could bring down a 59-story tower in Manhattan, sparking a covert nighttime rescue mission.