Seeing is Believing
[Advance] I have tried to limit this right to the title, because surely there are many technical achievements in the course of history, 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 old, some contemporary, all are great, and until something better I will be writing thisStone in me, and I'm not adding 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 services, but then that part of humanity, is to look for and challenges. So here we go:
1 - The Panama Canal: The Panama Canal, one of the most impressive in the world, with three locks and a canal 51 miles long, is perhaps the greatest engineeringArt Of Man feat. I visited the site three times in 2006.
The City of Panama, an ancient city dates from 1673 AD (and some structures to 1519 AD: I've seen them all, awesome), it was once burned (the old town), I walked through the rubble, which was declared by ' UNESCO website, or World Heritage Site.
What is the Panama Canal? This is a 51 miles waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific. That is, in a nutshell. I saw the large and small vessels to pass through the channel. In1880 France tried to build this waterway for the fight against yellow fever and malaria, which kills 22,000 people. It 'been a canal treaty in 1903 and in 1904 the Americans throughout the building and finished in 1914 (it lasted only ten years to build). He bought the rights for $ 40 million from France, which began the project, but may not be completed, which had invested $ 375 million in the project, and then the United States has invested $ 300 million. Mountain was to be divided intotwo, creating a rift between them and the reservoirs created. I saw the pictures of the construction in progress, it is breathtaking, the task.
2 - The Great Wall of China: I went to the Great Wall of China, in 1996, has been a disquieting. Between 250 BC and 1450 AD, built on the hill and extended it rangers in unpredictable terrain, it's great to walk up and down the wall, knowing they were nomadic tribes, or rather the so-called barbarians (or was it too) well.It extends two thousand miles across China, and can be seen from space. An old technology base second only to (I think) 500 years later, when the Panama Canal was created. You can put six of the pyramids in Egypt in the construction of the canal, and debris remains.
3 - The Central Railroad of Peru (1907 completed): The Central Railroad of Peru's most important to the world (historically) to steal a technical result of the country and whereat a height of fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty feet (above sea level) to the city Ticlio reached, then down to the bone City (La Oroya) and Huancavelica: A thousand miles of railroad through the mountains, over 41 bridges at 13 - zig-zag through 60 tunnels. E 'near the Rio Mantaro, in the Mantaro Valley of Peru (as you can see, there are many technical difficulties in the production technique is involved). I have not been on this road, but I see the bridges,and galleries are carved and built this is achieved, while the vehicle was in the Andes of Peru, and the Mantaro Valley itself, and the Rio.
4 - The Pan-American: While in South America, I've been down this road a dozen times, but while in Bogota, Colombia, I thought it was a little 'different than those who died on the road, planted trees for their loved ones them, and you see all of these trees. What kind of a gesture.
This was no smallProject, 29,800 miles from the () the whole system, from) outside Fairbanks, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina in South America (with a gap of 54 miles in the rain forest. And North and South America Highway dinner is just too big and too complex to tell in a short paragraph like that, but let me say that it is a paradise for tourists, perhaps the best way to North and South America Travel next to the beam.
5 - The plateau of Giza and the Pyramids and the Sphinx (Egypt): When I was in Egypt, I have 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 tour of the front row of the Sphinx, to have only a few people, and very few, it is midnight, the trip to get a special and expensive (perhaps as much as the trip to Egypt itself), but what you get paid to touch them, and perhaps a little 'more). Great Sphinx and the north side of the courtyard in front of the house are the ruins of the temple. If you use this combination, and all itsCombination of compounds of Plateau, and the connections to the sky, the Astronomical Society, is an art gallery on a large scale.
6 - The Trans-Siberian Railway: I have only what can be called a small part of it was (perhaps it should be the European branch), as it goes from England to Brussels, Belgium, in Cologne, Germany, and Moscow, Russia, and then the capital of Mongolia (Ulan Bater), and Beijing, China. It is not certain that the credit for the constructionPerhaps those countries I just mentioned, is, if anything, a performance by the United Nations, as they crossed the border of so many countries. But the miles are involved, like a trip I would only say six days by train, which is in itself a technological challenge unprecedented in a railroad.
7 - The Alaska Pipeline: On the road to Barrow, Alaska, and during the flight, while in Barrow, on the tundra, vidi, pipeline, is massive, and for how long tail ending. Itconfuses me, as it should go, and a link, and a week in Barrow, in 1996, was a week long, resolve to put it mildly, and you can see, nothing in the Arctic, but white, no tree, no anything except white bears, white this and that, and behavior, see the white after a while ', but it might seem more silver. Back in 1968-'69, when I went to San Francisco, were many people working up on plans for oil, the anticipation of the pipeline, as it would be a gold rush. II still remember well, Dan, a friend of mine at that time, his stepfather's brother was working on the road up there, in oil fields.
The 800 mile long Trans-Alaska Pipeline, began in 1977 and pumped successfully carrying more than 15 billion barrels of oil. You cross three mountain ranges and to build more than 800 rivers and streams, which costs $ 8 billion, and was driven mainly by private funds. It took three years and two months to build between 1974-1977, I participate in the planningwere complicated because they build up to seven airports in order to allow the construction.
) 8 - Borobudur (the glory: a masterpiece of art and technology (installation): temple or shrine of Buddha, with 504 statues of Buddha in sitting or standing up around the shrine. E 'wider than the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt built on a hill. I was there in 1999, during the summer and around me, until I got the top, built in 8th Century AD. It has two million unitsVolcanic rocks, the whole structure of the building, the area of 14,165 square meters, with a width of 120 m. With a total of 3,500,000 tons. Only about 5,000 visitors go one years does not mean that your regular stops at the very least, it should fly in Yogyakarta, the center, Java, to get there (from the Midwest, you go to Alaska to Japan, Guam, Bali and small plane you can take in the city. On the top of the shrine is a huge stupa is also a quiet, over and aroundentire range.
2-23-2007
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