Tuesday’s marvels of engineering: Three Gorges Dam
Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in Hubei province, China.
A straight-crested concrete gravity structure, the Three Gorges Dam is 2,335 metres (7,660 feet) long with a maximum height of 185 metres (607...
Tuesday’s marvels of engineering: Atomium
A little less than 4 years before the crucial date, i.e. November 1954, the engineer André Waterkeyn, who wished to celebrate scientific progress, hit upon the idea of the Atomium.
This was to represent the...
Tuesday’s marvels of engineering: Chandra X-ray observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory which was launched in 1999 by NASA is the most powerful and largest (at 45 feet) x-ray telescope in the world.
It was launched to capture images of high energy regions...
Tuesday’s marvels of engineering: Nano engine
Physicists have built the smallest working engine ever created. It's a heat-powered motor barely larger than the single atom it runs on.
Designed and build by a team of experimental physicists led by Johannes Roßnagel...
Tuesday’s marvels of engineering: Bagger 288
One of the world’s heaviest land vehicles is in use at the Garzweiler open pit lignite mine.
It can move 240,000 cubic meters of earth per day, it’s as heavy as more than 8,600 cars,...
