2+ Hours Of The World's Most Ambitious Engineering Projects

This Super Structures marathon celebrates the world's most spectacular engineering challenges and monumental construction projects. Featuring the Panama Canal, the world's tallest buildings and the Channel Tunnel!

00:00 The Panama Canal
51:25 Sky Scrapers
01:42:55 Channel Tunnel

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[javig]

It neves ceases to amaze what the spirit of man can accomplish, I crossed the English Channel in summer of 1990 while on vacation on a propeller hover craft, and now it's on my bucket list to visit again and experience the Euro Tunnel....Incredible accomplishment!

[pilnes]

Absolute lump-in-the-throat stuff. Thanks, Barry.

[dthomas]

Tunnelers were like the hi-risers, both building a part of progress.

[alanrusso]

Great video I love your interaction with the people you meet.

[User]

The year 2000? The future looks awesome!

[robboud]

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[dalewallace]

As the year 2000 approaches, I thought this was old when it referenced the world trade center as part of the Manhattan skyline.

[robinsmith]

Weltron 8 track and radio AM / FM...
Round white. Looks like a space helmet... tapes get stuck and dont play past song 1. :( can i send it for repair?

[jakeanderson]

THE NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM at the Itsmus Of Tehuantepec in Mexico will be an alternative to move containers in about 8 hours from one side of the Pacific to the other side of the Atlantic. It will take loading and unloading. Much cheaper and without causing huge carbon impact or damage to the climate. If it doesn’t rain sufficient soon enough the PANAMA canal will continue reducing its traffic to huge vessels.

[okengineers]

How did They know they had to kill the mosquitos? It was Cuban Doctor Carlos J. Finlay who discovered it after 20 years for research. Americans became acquainted with his work during the Spanish American war.

[derekcarstensen]

In one of my lives I was an electrical fork lift mechanic for Dc electric, ev 100 controller system if I remember correctly it was a shunt controlled system if I am remembering ohms law correctly low voltage = high amperage I think this may be causing the diode to fail in the alternator, they used to have a tool called a handy man that would tests those gates in the diode to see if the gate held but that was twenty years and I sold mine years ago also my batter tester would test the alternator diode to see if the gate held on the diode

[Andrew-suvd]

Progress in modern digital technology is unstoppable. 👏 👏 👏

[jahosaphet]

the state of the art computer simulations that make the panama canal a much different place at about 46:30 that was just hilarious

[davelangton]

How many unit joint a the same time I have iPhone and androids. Please …merci

[enzswqk]

MGM was 1980. As terrible as it was, it actually paved the way for many changes that have saved many others.

[matthuss]

What is the best way to advertise for a small startup?

[steveharris]

We did not invade Panama, we had already been there for 90 years.

[michaelgian]

@27:54 Granted that "Panama Canal Cross Section" is an artist's conception, wouldn't it have been a bit more proper to have drawn the second to topmost gates with their tops to the same as the topmosts?

[UCFCamaroSS]

Luke Skywalker talking about skyscrapers

[johnhauser]

I am wondering what year these shows were made. When they were talking about the world trade centers and saying they would be able to withstand the impact of even the biggest airplane ever made kind of got me thinking that I wonder what the person saying that on the show was thinking on the day of the attack back in 2001. That is a day that I will never for get and I think just about everyone in the United States would say the same thing.