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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.
Engineering
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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 an innovative trench of liquid clay and concrete created a one-kilometer underground shield to hold back water pressure.
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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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If built conventionally, the curing heat would have taken 125 years to dissipate, destroying the dam from the inside.
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In the 19th century, observing a tiny naval wood-borer solved the greatest dilemma in tunneling.
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In 1930, engineers lifted and rotated an eight-story skyscraper without interrupting a single phone call or breaking a pipe.
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The colossal engineering feat that assembled an arch taller than the Statue of Liberty and then pushed it over the nuclear reactor
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How a zigzag design, sliding supports, and thermosyphons prevented a colossal ecological disaster in the Arctic.