Engineering achievements that leave you in awe?

Makhaira

Makhaira

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Friday night thoughtfulness...

There are some things that in terms of achievement I can get my head around and understand, like how Brunel was a visionary in terms of his engineering projects, the Romans had a fantastic grasp of infrastructure and organisation for their time, but some things continue to amaze me.

One of the items that definitely tops my list is the Blackbird SR 71. When you read up on how radical a lot of the design thinking was that went into it, not just then, but even now, it really does blow my mind a bit.

So, what are the things that really do make you think "wow", and maybe even inspire you if you're that way inclined?
 
The national grid. I know how much effort goes into installing cables and building overhead lines today and I am amazed by how much they achieved in the 60s and 70s to get the grid built. Most of these assets are still in service now.
 
airbus a380, seeing the wings up close as they're build watching them being carried over head by cranes and walking round inside them has lead me to firmly believe this thing should not be able to fly :p


I'm pretty sure they use some kind of pixie dust to cheat mavity.
 
This...

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Millau, France: The Millau Viaduct is the highest bridge in the world. At almost 1,000 feet high (taller than the even the Eiffel Tower) and over 8,000 feet long it sometimes sits above the cloud line, as shown in the beautiful photographs above. The engineered wonder of the bridge itself is nearly as amazing as the view of the valley below.
 
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The view from the elevator is the Milau Bridge in France.

Would most certainly be a "dizzying view" from China ;)
 
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I'm still in awe that people were flown over the Atlantic underneath a hydrogen filled balloon and it took so long for disaster to actually hit.
 
I made a centre punch with plastic coated handle interchangeable tips to go in a tool box I made by folding and cutting steel using a spot welder.
 
When the man came and installed my BT hub thinger. Now that's engineering.

Oh, and the company I work for manufactured over 1000 magnets for the LHC, and I work in the design of MRI gradient coils, so I kind of have to say magnetics and superconducting electromagnets.
 
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Millau, France: The Millau Viaduct is the highest bridge in the world. At almost 1,000 feet high (taller than the even the Eiffel Tower) and over 8,000 feet long it sometimes sits above the cloud line, as shown in the beautiful photographs above. The engineered wonder of the bridge itself is nearly as amazing as the view of the valley below.
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That is freaking awesome. They built that to avoid traffic jams?
 
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