12 of the World’s Most Insane Engineering Marvels

twelve of the world's most insane engineering Marvel's number twelve on islands located in the United Arab Emirates the palm islands represent the largest human-made island on the planet famous English footballer David Beckham pre-ordered a villa on one of the islands in 2002 while the islands are a worldwide draw for wealthy tourists and an amazing feat of construction they have also drawn a concern of environmentalists during dredging work the only known coral reef off of devised shores was destroyed turtles nesting spots have been destroyed and the oceans natural currents have been rerouted of the three palm islands only palm jumeirah is fully completed real estate company Nikhil properties is responsible for the islands and also built the nearby a world a group of islands built in the image of the earth number 11 Three Gorges Dam though this project is an impressive engineering feat the fact that it has had grossly adverse effects on both human beings and the environment temper the excitement behind its construction and existence and make the Three Gorges the most notorious dam on the planet regarding installed capacity the dam was the world's largest power station when it became fully functional in 2012 it has a total length of around 1.4 miles and a height of 607 feet the dam also displaced two reported 1.3 million people though that number is disputed and may be even higher flooded archaeological and cultural sites and caused significant ecological and environmental changes the drastic changes in reservoir water levels have caused an increase in landslide experts feel that the sheer weight of the reservoirs water could cause earthquakes animals and plants are threatened due to changes in the environment and fragmentation number-10 Large Hadron Collider when it started up on September 10th 2008 jellied sea became the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on the planet stick inside the curtain collider complex it's buried at a depth of 575 feet underneath the border of France and Switzerland the collider is composed of around 9600 super magnets the fire protons around a circular shaft at unfathomable speed particles of the machine are made to collide going as fast as possible to create the highest amount of energy physicists including Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson are concerned about the machines potential to create a mini black hole that would destroy the plant number nine the Falkirk wheel to connect the fourth and Clyde canal with the Union Canal Scotland engineers built the Falkirk wheel the world's first and only rotating boat lift completed in 2002 this unique marble stands 115 feet tall and is made of over 1,200 tonnes of steel powered by ten hydraulic motors the Falkirk wheel can transport up to eight vessels at one time on a journey that takes you one hour to get from one canal to another it's an impressive and imposing site that has become a tourist attraction in the country Hungary Panama Canal in 1904 the United States began building what would become one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of the century the Panama Canal the monumental project would span a decade and face countless obstacles at the onset the ever-present threat of malaria claimed lives and scared workers away from the site luckily chief sanitary officer William Gorgas knew that the disease was carried by mosquitoes he had recently been in Havana where he directed a controlled strategy to eliminate the disease carrying insects with jurgis's vital health malaria was eradicated from the business by 1906 though it would take three different project engineers 56,000 works 10% of whom lost their lives constructing the canal and 375 million dollars the Panama Canal officially opened on August 15 1914 the channels importance is hard to understate easy to see on a map it connected the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean saving ships a dangerous journey around the southern tip of South America number seven the Channel Tunnel it took almost 200 years and costs twenty 1 billion dollars to complete the Channel Tunnel an underwater passageway between England and France finally opened in 1994 French engineer Albert Matthew put forth a proposal in 1802 of a tunnel supported by wooden beams that would be lit by candles and could be used by horse-drawn carriages British media and political pressure over national security would halt the project later in the century the sides would start construction on a tunnel but political differences would against all the attempt finally in 1988 the successful project would begin twenty three and a half miles completed 32 mile channel tunnel lie underwater making it the longest underwater tunnel in the world number six Chandra x-ray Space Telescope along with the Hubble Space Telescope Chandra is one of NASA's most advanced space observatory it was appropriately and fittingly named after an Indian American astrophysicist whose work on black holes made him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 originally launched in 1999 the observatories longevity and scientific value has made it one of NASA's most successful mission in 2014 Chandra observe the awe-inspiring Tycho's supernova remnant which was created by the explosion of the white dwarfs and provide Shasta Dam stretching mightily across the Sacramento River in Northern California construction of the Shasta Dam took place from 1938 to 1945 once completed it would back up water for over 35 miles to form Shasta Lake California's largest reservoir in a place that is visited by millions of vacationers annually Frank Crowe who had just helped finished the Hoover Dam oversaw the entire project which included 4,700 workers building what was at the time the second largest concrete dam the country 12 million tons of gravel was needed for the project luckily a substantial supply was located in the nearby city of ready to transport this large quantity of gravel the world's longest conveyor belt was constructed new with 9.6 miles long and operated 24 hours a day seven days a week for several years number for Millau Viaduct soaring high above the clouds the world was captivated by the Millau Viaduct when it opened at December 2004 the idea that the viaduct only took three years to build is almost as astounding as the bridge itself towers on the incredible structure rise to a height of 1125 feet making it the tallest bridge in the world seven pillars weighing 700 tons each were built for the project that had to be put in exactly the right place for the bridge to be a success multiple satellite signals are used to help pinpoint the right spots for the pillars to be accurately spotted bridge specialist Michael Grillo GU and renowned British architect Norman Foster were employed to design the Millau Viaduct which is widely regarded as an engineering marvel that has no equal number three Hubble Space Telescope star a planet found in outer space it was likely discovered with the use of the Hubble Space Telescope which has rested in low-earth orbit since 1990 it's named after Edwin Hubble who took the largest telescopes of his day to the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena California and discovered countless unknown planets and galaxies in the 1920s experts have published over 14,000 scientific papers using data from Space Telescope making it one of the most productive instruments of science and history at launch it weighs 24,000 pounds and today it is 27,000 pounds and 43 and a half feet long number two Hong Kong International Airport does a Kansai International Airport in Japan was the first to be entirely built on an artificial island when it opened in 1994 it lies on soft wind that has the thinking much more quickly than anticipated ultimately making the project a potentially colossal failure the Hong Kong International Airport was a little more successful the project took six years and around 20 billion dollars to build making it one of the biggest projects in the aviation industry it lies on Chek Lap Kok an island that is mostly made of land reclaimed for the construction of the airport the 24-hour airport is one of the busiest in the world holds one of the earth's largest passenger terminal building number one ISS the International Space Station is not only the largest human-made object in orbit but it also represents the collaboration of nations around the world five space agencies NASA Russia's Ross cosmos the European Space Agency the Canadian Space Agency in the Japanese aerospace exploration agency representing 15 countries were involved in constructing the 100 billion dollar station the structure was taken and built piece by piece in orbit and has been continuously occupied since November 2nd 2000 current plans call for ISS to be in operation until 2024 by which time some of its first components will be nearly three decades old

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Published: Sun Mar 12 2017