Seeing is believing
[Advance] I tried to limit that right, title, because certainly there are many technical talents in the history of the Roman walls in England, and the Greek Acropolis of Athens, and the legendary labyrinth of Crete, and so on and so on. But these are the ones I have seen and feel are worthy of being called the greatest of mankind. Some are ancient, some contemporary, are all great, and until I find something better, this will be writtenStone me, and I'm not you the space program or the moon landing in this overview, or scenario. Much has been done with his blood and sweat,
Perhaps too much blood and sweat went into these things, but then the human race is not to search for and challenges. So here we go:
1 - The Panama Canal: The Panama Canal, one of the most impressive performance of world level is the three locks, and a long canal is 51 miles long, perhaps the greatest engineeringArticle I of Man Feat visited the place three times in 2006.
The Panama City, an ancient city dating back to 1673 AD (and some structures to 1519 AD: I've seen all awesome), it was burned once (the old town), I walked under the rubble, the site of UNESCO now, or Heritage.
What is the Panama Canal? There is a 51-mile waterway connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific. That is, in a nutshell. I saw the large and small vessels pass through the channel. In1880 France tried to build this waterway, fighting yellow fever and malaria, which kills 22,000 people. It was a canal in 1903 and 1904, the Americans took over the building, and reached in 1914 (lasted only ten years to build). He bought the rights to 40 million U.S. dollars from France, who started the project was able to accomplish, but not to invest $ 375 million dollars in the project and then the United States had invested $ 300 million. Monti was to be dividedtwo, designed to create a rift between them, and artificial lakes. I saw pictures of ongoing construction, it was breathtaking, the task.
2 - The Great Wall of China: I was walking on the Great Wall of China in 1996, has been a disquieting. Built between 250 BC and 1450 AD, covers mountain terrain and unpredictable magic binding up and down the wall walk, knowing that it was the nomadic tribes, or rather the so-called barbarians (or has been taken).They range from three thousand kilometers across China, and can be seen from space. An old engineer surpassed only feet (I think) 500 years later, when the Panama Canal was created. You could put six of the pyramids in Egypt, construction of the canal, and debris remains.
3 - The Central Railroad of Peru (completed 1907): The Central Railway of Peru's most prestigious in the world (historically), the country and to steal a miracle of engineering, wherereach heights of fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty feet (sea level) to the city Ticlio, then down to the bone City (La Oroya) and Huancavelica: thousands of miles by rail through the mountains, over 41 bridges, 13 - zig -zag, 60 galleries. And 'near the Rio Mantaro, in the Mantaro Valley in Peru (as you can see there are many technical difficulties involved in its design, engineering). I have not been on this road, but I saw the bridges,and tunnels were dug and built to achieve this goal, during a trip in the Andes of Peru, and the Mantaro Valley itself, and became the Rio.
4 - The Pan-American road: while in South America, I've been down this road a dozen times, but while in Bogota, Colombia, I found a bit 'different from those of people killed on the road, their loved ones planted trees for them and see all these trees. What a nice gesture.
This was not a bit 'Project, 29,800 miles of highway (the system) over Fairbanks, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina in South America (with a gap of 54 miles in the rain forest). And 'dinner Americas Highway, it is too big and too complex to tell in a short paragraph like that, but let me say that this is a marina, perhaps the best way to travel around America near the jet.
5 - The plateau of Giza: Pyramids and the Sphinx and its (Egypt): When I was in Egypt, I took a tour of the plateau,and, of course, the three pyramids, and went into the pyramid of Khafre, with its galleries and sections, and all. And taking a ride in the front row of the Sphinx to have only a few people and very few, must be at midnight to get that special tours and expensive (perhaps as much as the trip to Egypt itself), but you get what you pay , touching, and perhaps a little 'more). The Great Sphinx is the north side of the courtyard, are still the ruins of the temple. If you see this combination, and all itsCombination of compounds through the plateau, and links with the sky, astronomical societies, there is a gallery of Engineering in style.
6 - The Trans-Siberian Railway: I only allude to what might be called a small part of it (Perhaps the European section), because it goes from England to Brussels, Belgium, Cologne, Germany, and Moscow, Russia and then in Mongolia (Ulan Bater) Capitol and Beijing, China. Not sure who gets the credit for the constructionPerhaps those countries I just mentioned is, if anything, an Achievement UN in crossing the border from so many countries. But the miles are involved, on a trip I would mention only six days on the train, which in itself is an engineering feat unparalleled in a rail.
7 - pipelines in Alaska: My way of Barrow, Alaska, and during the flight, while in Barrow, on its Tundra, I saw that massive gas pipeline, and as a long tail ending. Itconfuses me, how could you go to repair a link, well, a week in Barrow, 1996 has been a long week at least, and we see nothing in the Arctic, but you have no trees, nothing but White Bear knows this and that, and the pipeline looks white after a while ', but looking silver maybe more. Already in 1968-'69, when I went to San Francisco, many people were there to work the first position on oil projects, anticipation of conduct like a gold rush. II remember very well, Dan, a friend of mine at that time, the father of his brother was there to the position of working in oil fields.
The 800 mile long Trans-Alaska Pipeline began in 1977, was pumping, transportation has been successful over 15 billion barrels of oil. to build it crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams, which costs $ 8 billion, and was largely owned by private funds. It took three years and two months to build between 1974-1977, I would like to participate in the planningwere complicated because building seven airfields, had to accommodate the construction.
8 - Borobudur (glory): A masterpiece of art and technology (installation): temple or shrine of Buddha, with 504 statues of Buddha in sitting or standing around the shrine. It is wider than the Great Pyramid in Egypt, built on a hill. I went there in 1999, the summer and I'm surrounded, until they reached its summit, built in the 8th Century AD. Two million unitsvolcanic rocks, the overall structure of the building area of 14,165 square meters, a width of 120 m. With a total of 3,500,000 tons. Only about 5,000 visitors go there for a year is not one of your regular stops at the very least, you must fly to Yogyakarta, Central Java, to get (from the Midwest, go to Alaska to Japan, to Guam, according to Bali, and a small plane you can take with the city. On the top of the shrine is a huge stupa, there is also a quiet area above and aroundthroughout the area.
2-23-2007
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