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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is an episode list of the long-running documentary television series ... "Engineering Disasters 22"
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.
Including an episode on New Orleans and another on the 1970s, 24 original Engineering Disasters episodes have been on Modern Marvels. The packaging on the box set of Engineering Disasters episodes 4-20 (as well as the episode covering New Orleans) describe the series as such: "Dark clouds with silver linings, Modern Marvels: Engineering ...
Engineering disasters often arise from shortcuts in the design process. Engineering is the science and technology used to meet the needs and demands of society. [1] These demands include buildings, aircraft, vessels, and computer software. In order to meet society’s demands, the creation of newer technology and infrastructure must be met ...
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is a British documentary series originally broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, and later on BBC2. It is presented by Richard Hammond , and looks at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines.
All Comets are grounded and the investigation takes a step forward. The investigation results in improved metallurgical understanding, from which all aircraft design greatly benefits, even over five decades after the incidents. Note: This episode mainly focuses on BOAC Flight 781, the first to crash.
This is a list of engineering blunders, i.e., gross errors or mistakes resulting from grave lack of proper consideration, such as stupidity, confusion, carelessness, or culpable ignorance, which resulted in notable incidents. Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused by a faulty blowout preventer.
Impossible Engineering is a television series produced for Discovery's Science Channel in the US, [1] UKTV's Yesterday in the UK, [2] RMC Decouverte in France, [3] Societe Radio-Canada's Ici Explora in Canada, [3] SVT in Sweden, [4] Discovery Italy in Italy [5] as well as with other broadcasters around the world. The first episode was released ...