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Mar 21 2010 03:00pm
This is not a definitive list. Actually im just looking for some peoples opinions and ideas on the subject.

Thought it might be interesting, to see some of the engineering marvels of the industrial revolution!
My submission to the first round of ideas is


"The Forth Rail Bridge"

Some key facts -

First major structure constructed from steel.
55,000 tons of steel
18,122 m³ of granite

Cantilever Style bridge.
2,528.7 metres in length (8,296 ft)

Finished construction 4 March 1890






The best and most popular entrys will make it into a poll at a later date. Any structure you think is an enginering success, feel free to share


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Mar 21 2010 03:26pm
Pont du Gard should be in this list. 50 km long with 23 cm/km recline. In the first century B.C.

Other suggestions:

Great Wall, China
Pyramids at Gizeh, Egypt
Taipei 101 (huge buildings in high earthquake regions often don't fare so well)
Pantheon, Rome
My own country's Delta works
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Hoover Dam

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Mar 21 2010 04:27pm
Statfjord - Start of production: 1979



Ormen lange - Start of production: 2007



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Mar 21 2010 05:37pm
Quote (normannen @ Mar 21 2010 10:27pm)
Statfjord - Start of production: 1979

http://www.wbec.org/graphics/ElmoStatfjordSketch.jpg

Ormen lange - Start of production: 2007

http://www.nor-instruments.no/Innhold/Sider/Norpurifier/images/OrmenLange.jpg


Im sure that first one is in norway? Absolutely incredible. I remember watching a documentary with richard hammond on superstructures

Its amazing how much of it is actually underwater^^ Incredible achievement for engineering!!

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Pont du Gard should be in this list. 50 km long with 23 cm/km recline. In the first century B.C.

Other suggestions:

Great Wall, China
Pyramids at Gizeh, Egypt
Taipei 101 (huge buildings in high earthquake regions often don't fare so well)
Pantheon, Rome
My own country's Delta works
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Hoover Dam


Im talking 1800 onwards. If it were, "of all time" maybe it would be too vague.
Could end up as re defining the ancient wonders of the world. ;3

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Mar 21 2010 05:39pm
Quote (balrog66 @ Mar 21 2010 09:26pm)
Pont du Gard should be in this list. 50 km long with 23 cm/km recline. In the first century B.C.

Other suggestions:

Great Wall, China
Pyramids at Gizeh, Egypt
Taipei 101 (huge buildings in high earthquake regions often don't fare so well)
Pantheon, Rome
My own country's Delta works
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Hoover Dam


The delta works are incredible ^

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Mar 21 2010 10:32pm
Are we talking greatest engineering achievement as in a structure/building or just greatest engineering achievement in general?

Because things like the invention of the Airplane, automobile are among the most revolutionary engineering of the modern world.



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Mar 21 2010 11:22pm
I would say recombinant DNA technology needs to be one of those 10.

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Mar 22 2010 12:24am
are we talking architectural achievements?
cus if not, id say the transistor
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Mar 22 2010 12:49am
Quote (Kamikizzle @ Mar 22 2010 01:24am)
are we talking architectural achievements?
cus if not, id say the transistor


Any structure you think is an enginering success
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Mar 22 2010 05:49am
Quote (Lights_Warrior @ Mar 22 2010 04:32am)
Are we talking greatest engineering achievement as in a structure/building or just greatest engineering achievement in general?

Because things like the invention of the Airplane, automobile are among the most revolutionary engineering of the modern world.


Any individual structure that surpassed the level of its time....

The car or the airplane, are of course historical achievements, but they are too vague in nature. Im really meaning individual projects/buildings/structures
Quote (nobrow @ Mar 22 2010 05:22am)
I would say recombinant DNA technology needs to be one of those 10.

http://www.obgynacademy.com/basicsciences/fetology/genetics/images/chimericDNA.gif


This is a technology achievement rather than an engineering one. Its probably genetic engineering? A great discovery but again its a little to vague and abstract.

An engineering achievement, in the sense of this thread. Is something you can see. Something made by man, that changed a landscape, and marked a place in history.
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