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Brooklyn Bridge Caissons

The Brooklyn Bridge was Built with the Help of Pressurized Caissons. Several Workers were Killed or Permanently Injured Because of it.

Underground tunnels and bridge foundations below the water table are some of humanity’s most amazing civil-engineering structures. The working spaces, or caissons, are pressurized with compressed air during construction to keep out groundwater, and laborers known as sandhogs pass through pressure locks into and out of the caissons. But what are pressurized caissons? The construction […]

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Who is Described as the Father of Robotics and Modern-Day Engineering?

Leonardo Da Vinci has been credited with many inventions and paintings, one of the most influential figures in medieval times. But did you know that he was actually influenced by a man who lived around 300 years before his time but had ideas that surpassed Da Vinci’s? Ismail Al-Jazari was a Muslim polymath and inventor

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How Did A French Engineer Survive Being Stranded in the Desert?

The human body can survive about three days without water. In such extreme conditions, it would be difficult to find water. When a French engineer was stranded in the desert just outside Morocco, he came up with an ingenious plan that people started calling him the real-life Tony Stark. Emile Leray, a French engineer, got

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