Reels tagged #engineering
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Monuments
Venice stands on millions of wooden piles
Its palaces rest on tree trunks driven into the lagoon mud. Starved of oxygen underwater, the wood petrified instead of rotting.
Chernobyl
Reactor 4 sits under the largest moving structure ever built
The New Safe Confinement arch is 108 m tall and weighs 36,000 tonnes. It was assembled beside the reactor and slid into place over it — the biggest object ever moved on land.
Eponyms
'Diesel' was an engineer
Rudolf Diesel patented his compression ignition engine in 1892, and his surname became the fuel it burned.