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Mighty Machines is a Canadian educational children's television series. The series is about how machines work and what they do. ... Mega Machines features episodes ...
Model Type Length Diameter Weight Year introduced Year discontinued LZ 129 Hindenburg: Rigid airship: 245 m (803 ft 10 in) [13] 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in)
Crunch (voiced by Brian Cox in Mega Machines, and by Dustin Demri-Burns in the series) is a mean giant, white caterpillar-tracked excavator who communicates with grunting sounds. He originally belonged to Conrad, until Bob took him in.
The Myth of the Machine is a two-volume book by Lewis Mumford that takes an in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times. The first volume, Technics and Human Development , was published in 1967, followed by the second volume, The Pentagon of Power , in 1970.
Extreme Machines was a documentary series created by Pioneer Productions for The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. The series focused mainly on machines although in some episodes of Season 4 and Season 5, it also looked at disasters involving them. [1] The series was largely narrated by William Hootkins. The show made also made use of ...
The Giga Press program is a series of aluminium die casting machines manufactured for Tesla, initially by Idra Group in Italy. Idra presses were the largest high-pressure die casting machines in production as of 2020, with a clamping force of 55,000 to 61,000 kilonewtons (5,600 to 6,200 tf).
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), previously known as the MAN TAKRAF RB288 [2] built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. [3]
These machines greatly enhanced the US defense industry's capacity to forge large complex components out of light alloys, such as magnesium and aluminum. The program began in 1944 [1] and concluded in 1957 after construction of four forging presses and six extruders, at an overall cost of $279 million. Six of them are still in operation today ...