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15 Photographs Of The Superstructures That Put Us In Space
“It is easy to invent a flying machine,” said the 19th-century aviation engineer Otto Lilienthalmore, “[and] difficult to build one; to make it fly is everything.” The challenge of air (and later, space) travel began not with building aircraft, but with building a realistic simulation machine in which to test those aircraft.
There’s 320 Tons Of Junk In The Trunk Of This Russian Dumper
With 11 open-pit facilities producing over 45 million tonnes of coal annually, the Kuzbassrazrezugol (KRU) mining company isn’t just the biggest company in the Russian Federation, it’s the single largest coal exporter on the planet. And to empty its Bachatsky open-pit coal mine — one of the largest such mines in the region, producing 8.7 million tonnes annually — as efficiently as possible, KRU relies on the world’s largest dump truck: the Belaz series 7560.
Monster Machines: The 71m Tall, 4600-Tonne Crane That Builds Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft carriers are, how to say, big. Building them is a lot easier if you have a really, really big crane. Meet Big Blue. She’s the largest crane in the western hemisphere, and she’s hard at work piecing together the new Ford-class aircraft carriers in Newport News, Virginia.
Construction Worker Impaled Through The Brain Is A Modern-Day Phineas Gauge
If you’ve ever taken a psychology course, you’ll have heard of Phineas Gage, the man who survived having a railroad tie driven through his skull. It sounds like a one-of-a-kind thing, but a Brazilian construction worker just survived a similar injury.
3D Printer Can Build You A House In 20 Hours: Welcome To The Future
We’ve seen 3D printers used for everything from iPhone cases to makeshift weapons, but if you think bigger, what can these new printers really be used for? Could you really make your own house with a 3D printer in less than 20 hours? Turns out you can, and the technology is now set to be used by NASA for a future Moon colony.
Are You Impressed By This Publicity Stunt?
A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided it would try to impress potential buyers — or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment — by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other.
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