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Model Type Length Height Width Weight Year introduced Year discontinued Bagger 293: Bucket-wheel excavator: 225 m (738 ft 2 in) [1] [2] 96 m (315 ft 0 in)
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 Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
Everything is indeed larger in Texas. According to a map created by blog.batchgeo.com, more than 195 roadside attractions in the U.S. consider themselves the “world’s largest” something ...
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 ...
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, formerly Aquarena Springs and later the Aquarena Center, is an educational center in San Marcos, Texas. It seeks to preserve the unique archeological and biological resources of Spring Lake. Formed from more than 200 artesian springs, Spring Lake is one of the world's largest aquifer fed systems ...
Armand Bayou Nature Center is an urban preserve located in Pasadena and southeast Houston between the Johnson Space Center and the Bayport Industrial District.The 2,500-acre (10 km 2) nature center is the largest urban wilderness preserve in the United States.
Researchers said it’s possible only a few hundred people have ever seen the Texas Star Mushroom. In 2021, chorioactis geaster became the official state mushroom of Texas. Inks Lake State Park is ...