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Engineering An Empire – The Aztecs.

Isambard is also the only engineer to master all areas of engineering having achieved many ‘firsts’ in major engineering categories that existed in the era of steam and iron. Long before the Chanel Tunnel, Brunel was the first to build a tunnel under a navigable river.

What should be done now and in the near future to ensure that the basic needs for water, sanitation, nutrition, health, safety, and meaningful work are fulfilled for all humans?

A document by the History Channel which examines the numerous engineering feats the Egyptians undertook 5000 years ago to create some marvels that still stand today. Engineering an Empire - Egypt

List of our Top 5 most impressive engineering projects. Recap: » 10.Moon Landing » 9. Panama Canal » 8. Burj Dubai » 7. Millau Viaduct » 6. The Channel Tunnel

A classic educational archive depicting the construction of Hoover Dam.

By the middle of the 19th century, the benefits brought by the host of advances of the industrial age were gradually beginning to reach America, which soon developed a spectacular achievement of its own – the Transcontinental Railway, reaching right across the continent. They battled against hostile terrain, hostile inhabitants, …

2,460 m (8,071 ft): total length of the roadway 7: number of piers 77 m (253 ft): height of Pier 7, the shortest 343 m (1,125 ft): height of Pier 2, the tallest (245 m/804 ft at the roadway’s level) 87 m (285 ft): height of a mast 154: number of shrouds 270 m (886 ft): average height of the roadway 4.20 m …

The following engineering projects qualify as some of the most remarkable, because many of them achieved what was at one point deemed to be impossible and fulfilled the needs of modern day life by implementing audacious approaches to solving complex challenges. » 10.Moon Landing » 9. Panama Canal » 8. Burj Dubai » 7. Millau Viaduct » 6. The Channel Tunnel

Top 10 most remarkable engineers of all time. Their contributions were noble and genius without which life would not have turned out the way it did.