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This is a list of the world's largest machines, both static and movable ... Tunnel boring machine: 99 m (324 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
To establish the "largest" category, several factors take precedence: overall weight, which gives traction over driving axles; size (length and height of engine itself); and power, which may be in terms of raw horsepower, tractive effort, available power at axles (shaft horsepower) or, in the case of steam locomotives, available steam on a ...
Bertha was designed and manufactured by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works of Osaka, Japan, and was the world's largest earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, [14] at a cutterhead diameter of 57.5 feet (17.5 m) across. The machine was 326 feet (99 m) long and weighed 6,700 short tons (6,100 t). [15]
World's largest optical to mid infrared telescope. [citation needed] Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research: Darmstadt, Germany: 2012: In progress: 2025 (proj.) [51] Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope: Guizhou Province, China: 2011: Completed: 2020 ¥1.2 billion: The world's largest static/semi-static radio telescope measuring ...
The largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator in the world, built by Dr. Van de Graaff in the 1930s, is now displayed permanently at Boston's Museum of Science. With two conjoined 4.5 m (15 ft) aluminium spheres standing on columns 22 ft (6.7 m) tall, this generator can often obtain 2 MV (2 million volts).
The LHC is a proton collider, and currently the world's largest and highest-energy accelerator, achieving 6.5 TeV energy per beam (13 TeV in total). The aborted Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Texas would have had a circumference of 87 km. Construction was started in 1991, but abandoned in 1993. Very large circular accelerators are ...
Electrostatic machines are typically used in science classrooms to safely demonstrate electrical forces and high voltage phenomena. The elevated potential differences achieved have been also used for a variety of practical applications, such as operating X-ray tubes, particle accelerators, spectroscopy, medical applications, sterilization of food, and nuclear physics experiments.
Amarillo, Texas: TX-02 EP&SW 1: Steam 4-4-0 1857 built Static display, Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso, El Paso, Texas: Wood-burning. Only surviving locomotive of Breese, Kneeland, and Company of New Jersey TX-03 Texas & Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 610: 1977 NRHP Fort Worth, Texas: TX-04 No. 771 Steam 2-8-2 Mk-5