The Barbegal Aqueduct included a watermill complex with water cascading through a total of sixteen wheels. It may have been "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world"
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I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
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Bullets hitting bullets in slow motion - The impossible shot
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The Dingo | A low cost, open-source robot quadruped
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How NASA reinvented the wheel
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Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam.
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions?
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Engineering the world’s most complex office building, in Antwerp, Belgium
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Bergen is gearing up to open the world's longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel – 2.9km tunnel takes 30-45 minutes to walk through
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The most complex system in modern cars
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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China’s global mega-projects are falling apart
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An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022
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The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers
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An egg drop from space - and the failures along the way
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The insane scale of Europe's new mega-tunnel – Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany
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Why food commercials cost hundreds of thousands of dollars | Big Business
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood.
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Running Lego engines with air
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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
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The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle.
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Denmark and Germany now building the world's longest immersed tunnel
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Heart Aerospace's current project is a thirty-passenger plane designed to have a fully battery-powered range of 200 kilometres
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On the shores of an island off Norway's North Sea coast, engineers are building a burial ground for unwanted greenhouse gas
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How petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
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World's highest jumping robot
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What happened to flying wings?
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This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
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Wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway collapsed early Monday – a similar nearby bridge, also made of glued laminated timber, collapsed in 2016
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The nuts and bolts of siting and building power lines
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Inside the first undersea roundabout – one of the world's most remote construction projects can be found on the Faroe Islands
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Wind chimes - it doesn't have to be complicated
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How do you steer a drill below the earth?
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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Recently discovered drawings by Gustave Eiffel of the Statue of Liberty hint at last minute change
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What happened to giant hovercraft?
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Do you think an ~engineering group would make sense?
I think it would, that's something that interests a vast number of users. Things like construction, bridges, buildings, city planning, trains, etc. Right now they can go to ~misc or ~design which...
I think it would, that's something that interests a vast number of users. Things like construction, bridges, buildings, city planning, trains, etc. Right now they can go to ~misc or ~design which doesn't seem appropriate.
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This Japanese typewriter is cool as hell
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What actually happened to the Concorde
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Just another pedestrian killed
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Going nuclear to desalinate seawater
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Turkey has built the longest suspension bridge in the world
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Mechanical watch
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The insane engineering of the Javelin anti-tank missile
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