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The planet's greatest electromechanical naval feat overcomes a forty-story elevation difference in just forty minutes.
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Connecting Europe and Asia under the Bosphorus Strait using gigantic concrete modules submerged with millimeter precision.
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Two swinging arms the size of the Eiffel Tower protect the Netherlands with gigantic ball joints and an autonomous system without human intervention.
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Beneath the surface of the Japanese capital lies a monumental chamber supported by 59 pillars weighing 500 tons and powered by airplane turbines.
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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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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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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 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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Two gates the size of the Eiffel Tower that float, rotate on colossal mechanical ball joints, and sink to stop ocean storms.