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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.
Engineering
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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.
Engineering
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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.
Nature
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In ocean depths, this marine animal synthesizes a silica skeleton that outperforms human engineering and hosts an unusual lifelong symbiosis.
Engineering
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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.
History
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In 332 BC, the Macedonian conqueror built a one-kilometer causeway across the Mediterranean that transformed an island fortress into an enduring peninsula.
Engineering
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The colossal hydraulic work of submerged pneumatic barriers on the seabed that inflate with air to stop high tide.
Engineering
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
Science and technology
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In absolute vacuum, two clean metal pieces bind irreversibly just by touching because their atoms recognize no boundaries.
Engineering
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How an innovative trench of liquid clay and concrete created a one-kilometer underground shield to hold back water pressure.
History
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In 52 BC, Roman legions built more than 35 kilometers of concentric fortifications to fight on two fronts simultaneously.