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

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Progress - Science Documentaries
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Published 2023-08-16
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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All Comments (21)
  • @javig5045
    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!
  • @dthomas9230
    Tunnelers were like the hi-risers, both building a part of progress.
  • @alanrusso2074
    Great video I love your interaction with the people you meet.
  • @pilnes
    Absolute lump-in-the-throat stuff. Thanks, Barry.
  • @jakeanderson7309
    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.
  • @jahosaphet05
    the state of the art computer simulations that make the panama canal a much different place at about 46:30 that was just hilarious
  • @dalewallace4802
    As the year 2000 approaches, I thought this was old when it referenced the world trade center as part of the Manhattan skyline.
  • @robboud5751
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  • @steveharris7116
    We did not invade Panama, we had already been there for 90 years.
  • @Andrew-su7vd
    Progress in modern digital technology is unstoppable. đź‘Ź đź‘Ź đź‘Ź
  • @user-en9zs2wq1k
    MGM was 1980. As terrible as it was,it actually paved the way for many changes that have saved many others.
  • @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.
  • @derekcarstensen9134
    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
  • @constantinepapadakis1155
    Did America really won the Panama-US war? Whoa fantastic accomplishment! Actually is the second war they won after Grenada!