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Tunneling speeds increase over time. The first TBM peaked at 4 meters per week. This increased to 16 meters per week four decades later. By the end of the 19th century, speeds had reached over 30 meters per week. 21st century rock TBMs can excavate over 700 meters per week, while soil tunneling machines can exceed 200 meters per week.
13 April 2016 Mt. SAC Relays: Azusa, United States [25] Pole vault: Long jump: 6.80 m (+0.2 m/s) Akela Jones: 29 May 2021 Chula Vista Field Festival Chula Vista, United States [26] Triple jump: 13.35 m (+0.2 m/s) Seidre Forde: 4 April 2008 Texas Relays: Austin, United States Shot put: 17.14 m Shernelle Nicholls: 13 May 2007 Lincoln, United ...
The following is a list of speed records for various types of vehicles.This list only presents the single greatest speed achieved in each broad record category; for more information on records under variations of test conditions, see the specific article for each record category.
Ridge Racer was notable for being the first arcade video game with 3D texture-mapped graphics, with its System 22 hardware capable of texture mapping and Gouraud shading. Development took eight months, and the game is based on a trend among Japanese car enthusiasts, which involves racing on mountain roads while drifting around corners.
While races over imperial measured distances were very common in the first half of the 20th century, only the mile remains common today due to its historical prominence in track and field: all other imperial measured distance races became increasingly rare, and the IAAF deleted these events from the world record books in 1976.
Freighter Fairpartner carrying the disassembled tunnel boring machine into the Port of Seattle in April 2013. 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.
But he logged one for the highlight reel in Sunday's 23-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Levis threw a 98-yard touchdown pass to Nick Westbrook-Ikhine for the longest offensive touchdown of the ...
Summoning Salt is one of the leading speedrunners of the NES video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (MTPO). [3] As of November 2024, he holds the records for a variety of MTPO categories, including single-segment (playing through the entire game in one sitting), where his 14:46 time is over 13 seconds faster than the No. 2 speedrunner. [4]