While there are some amazing engineering projects, the top 10 biggest will take us all over the world. From deserts to subzero temperatures, these projects are astounding in scope and size.
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10. International Space Station
This international, multi-corporation, and nearly 100,000 people collaboration has successfully sent the largest manned object ever in space. It is large not only in difficulty and scope, but the 43,000 cubic foot space living and working area will soon be visible to 90% of the Earths surface by the naked eye.
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9. Three Gorges Dam
Once considered Chinas largest engineering project since the Great Wall, the Three Gorges Damis nearly half a mile high and a mile and a half wide. This has created a reservoir large enough for massive cargo ships to travel inland on. The dam is also created to produce nearly 10% of Chinas electricity supply.
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8. Big Dig
One of the most complicated engineering projects in the world, Bostons Big Dig has so many components that it is hard to explain. Not only are there so many planned components but the crews have run into many extra complications along the way that the project has included rearranging centuries of gas, water, electric, phone and cable lines and obliterating the city¡¯s main traffic route to create a new landscape that will eventually have parks and public green space - we hope.
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7. Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
This proposed repository is designed to store nuclear waste currently being stored in over 121 sites around the United States. While $9 million has already been spent on the project, it died on the drawing table in February 2010 after years of legal and political hold ups.
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6. Dubai Canal
Dubai engineering projects are massive and spectacular in general, and the Arabian Canal is working to blow all the rest of the projects out of the water. Literally. The proposed 46.6 miles long man-made canal would be the worlds largest man-made canal and brings water inland to create a planned desert oasis along the canal banks.
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5. Panama Canal
The Panama Canal has had such an impact on trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, it has been called the eighth wonder of the world. The canal has created a shortcut through the Isthmus of Panama that is only 50 miles at its widest point. This shortcut has reduced travel time in nearly half for cargo ships, since ships no longer need to sail around South America to reach the Pacific Ocean from New York City.
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4. Pathway Through the Bering Strait
What would be possible if there were a bridge or tunnel connecting Europe and North America? Originally pioneered by Czar Nicholas II in World War I, the project is regaining traction in the form of a tunnel that would allow year-round passage between the two continents. The project would be long and drawn out though since work would only be possible 4 months out of the year.
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3. Transatlantic Train
The proposed Transatlantic Train, traveling 4,000 miles per hour along a submerged oceanic tunnel, would allow you to have a date in New York City and return home to London in a little under an hour. The supersonic train would be able to travel between the major cities in 54 minutes, but there are obvious complications that will need to be worked through, let alone the massive cost!
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2. New York Subway System
The largest subway system in the United States, and the fourth largest in the world, the New York Subway system operates approximately 6,500 cars on over 700 miles of track. Owned by the City of New York and run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, trains run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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1. Sky Cities
A futuristic engineering proposalfor futuristic buildings that would tower over the Earth to create residential and commercial space as a solution to overcrowding predictions.
Whether it is sky cities or current train and subway systems that have been in use for years, engineers are busy exercising their brains for new projects to challenge the world and physics with.
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10. International Space Station
This international, multi-corporation, and nearly 100,000 people collaboration has successfully sent the largest manned object ever in space. It is large not only in difficulty and scope, but the 43,000 cubic foot space living and working area will soon be visible to 90% of the Earths surface by the naked eye.
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9. Three Gorges Dam
Once considered Chinas largest engineering project since the Great Wall, the Three Gorges Damis nearly half a mile high and a mile and a half wide. This has created a reservoir large enough for massive cargo ships to travel inland on. The dam is also created to produce nearly 10% of Chinas electricity supply.
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.
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8. Big Dig
One of the most complicated engineering projects in the world, Bostons Big Dig has so many components that it is hard to explain. Not only are there so many planned components but the crews have run into many extra complications along the way that the project has included rearranging centuries of gas, water, electric, phone and cable lines and obliterating the city¡¯s main traffic route to create a new landscape that will eventually have parks and public green space - we hope.
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7. Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
This proposed repository is designed to store nuclear waste currently being stored in over 121 sites around the United States. While $9 million has already been spent on the project, it died on the drawing table in February 2010 after years of legal and political hold ups.
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6. Dubai Canal
Dubai engineering projects are massive and spectacular in general, and the Arabian Canal is working to blow all the rest of the projects out of the water. Literally. The proposed 46.6 miles long man-made canal would be the worlds largest man-made canal and brings water inland to create a planned desert oasis along the canal banks.
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5. Panama Canal
The Panama Canal has had such an impact on trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, it has been called the eighth wonder of the world. The canal has created a shortcut through the Isthmus of Panama that is only 50 miles at its widest point. This shortcut has reduced travel time in nearly half for cargo ships, since ships no longer need to sail around South America to reach the Pacific Ocean from New York City.
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.
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4. Pathway Through the Bering Strait
What would be possible if there were a bridge or tunnel connecting Europe and North America? Originally pioneered by Czar Nicholas II in World War I, the project is regaining traction in the form of a tunnel that would allow year-round passage between the two continents. The project would be long and drawn out though since work would only be possible 4 months out of the year.
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.
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3. Transatlantic Train
The proposed Transatlantic Train, traveling 4,000 miles per hour along a submerged oceanic tunnel, would allow you to have a date in New York City and return home to London in a little under an hour. The supersonic train would be able to travel between the major cities in 54 minutes, but there are obvious complications that will need to be worked through, let alone the massive cost!
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2. New York Subway System
The largest subway system in the United States, and the fourth largest in the world, the New York Subway system operates approximately 6,500 cars on over 700 miles of track. Owned by the City of New York and run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, trains run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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1. Sky Cities
A futuristic engineering proposalfor futuristic buildings that would tower over the Earth to create residential and commercial space as a solution to overcrowding predictions.
Whether it is sky cities or current train and subway systems that have been in use for years, engineers are busy exercising their brains for new projects to challenge the world and physics with.
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