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It was first assembled into individual boxes that were joined in multiples to construct docks, causeways, barges, dry docks, floating cranes, marine railways or whatever was needed. Capt. Carl A. Carlson CEC of the War Plans Office came up with the concept of NLPs in 1935, [ 1 ] but it was in 1940 that the US Navy looked at the idea more seriously.
She was a wooden floating battery built to defend New York Harbor from the Royal Navy during the War of 1812. The vessel was designed to a unique pattern by Robert Fulton, and was renamed Fulton after his death. Because of the prompt end of the war, Demologos never saw action, and no other ship like her was built.
Engineering the Impossible was a 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine-mile-long (14 km) Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over 4,000-foot-long (1,200 m) Freedom Ship.
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A Chinese magician’s trick of table floating was exposed by his partner, to the displeasure of his audience in Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province.In this video posted to Pokerface Man’s ...
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Freedom Ship is a floating city project initially proposed in the late 1990s by engineer Norman Nixon. [1] [2] The namesake of the project reflects the designer's vision of a mobile ocean colony, such that it is free from the property, municipal, or federal laws of any nation states.
The attack on the floating batteries at Gibraltar. Attached to marshal Broglie's force in 1780, he looked for ways to win the siege of Gibraltar. Attacking by land was impossible and so d’Arçon began designing "unsinkable and fire-proof batteries" intended to breakthrough from the coast in tandem with other batteries advancing the British ...