105mm APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) vs Heavily Sloped Steel Armor

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Wheelchair that lets you stand up

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Eight-speed automatic transmission from a Lexus LS 460 Sport

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This road being built on the side of a mountain

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The pancake shielding block of the target monolith at the European Spallation source. This forms the lower most level of neutron guiding after the tungsten target has been hit by the proton beam.

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One of our rodblocks/no-twist mills/finishing mills/high-speed mills pulled apart for gearbox removal and repair.

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So cool

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Ball turret

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The SLS Moon Rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building

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Test truck briefly airborne after being launched from the deck of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier during catapult trials

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Inside CERN's antimatter generator

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When a CAD design ends up exactly as you intended.

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The Pratt and Whitney F135, the engine of the F-35 fighter jet. Developed from the Pratt & Whitney F119 engine used on the F-22 Raptor, the F135 produces around 40,000 lbf of thrust.

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wood joining

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Test inflation of the PAGEOS balloon satellite (1966)

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A B-2 Spirit strategic bomber takes off at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, January 16, 2024.

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The cross section of a submarine

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Soyuz launch from 200 meter away with 3 astronauts on board

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A work of art that doubles as a practical desktop👍

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Hot coiling a huge spring

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World's largest aerospace engines testbed (by Rolls Royce)

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Same boat with and without gyroscopic stabilizer

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The River Don steam engine - at 12,000 horse power it is the most powerful working steam engine in Europe

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Ammunition loader for the A-10 Thunderbolt II 30mm cannon

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The system of actuators by which the contour of NASA's 20inch supersonic wind tunnel (which this is with one side removed for maintentance) is shapen into a Laval nozzle of the desired proportions; [1000x782].

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108 year old bank vault door in Alabama

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This robotic arm to roll the dough

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RC Project: 3D Printed Dual Wishbone Suspension

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Bridge/tunnel that connects Denmark and Sweden. What a beauty.

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Do emergency paging racks count?

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Motorcycle Engine Powered Trike

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30 and 60 strut tensegrity spheres. Aluminum struts with steel chain. Struts do not touch each other.

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Cutting foam

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WWII bunker

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This building's conduit game is on point

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless floating away from the safety of the space shuttle with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him from drifting into the unknown. First person in history to do something like this.

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8 piston 4 stroke Scotch yoke engine

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Happened to come across this reasonably decent photograph of a TGV locomotive and thought you might like it.

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A Ferrofluid Clock

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An F-16 fires the latest variant of the AMRAAM, the AIM-120D3.

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Firedoor into the firebox of a steam locomotive (2500°F/1371°C)

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This college pamphlet is infinite

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Old-school look on a powered window

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This window

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Pozzo di San Patrizio (St. Patrick's Well) in Orvieto, Italy (looking up)

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Coupling ritual of two wild trains

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HMS Prince of Wales leaving Portsmouth

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Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge - Brazil

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The Magic Roundabout - Swindon

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V plow

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12 hours of wiring later...

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A C-5M Super Galaxy and a C-17 Globemaster III are parked nose to nose on the flight line at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Sept. 8, 2023.

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Inside a chainsaw

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Omnidirectional Conveyor

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Transporting a space shuttle over L.A

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I see your danish engineering and I raise you swiss engineering

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These beautiful welds

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The inside of a spacesuit.

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Found over on r/gifs. Thought it would belong here.

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Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST venturing outside for the very first time

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Researchers built a flying robot that mimics beetles' folding wings making it crash resistant and energy-efficient

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A vertical parking lot from the 1920s

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Beefy anti-strike bridge protection, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

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Volkswagen Golf in pieces

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A bigger turbocharger

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Abraham Lincoln animatronic built by Disney in 1963

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Excavators or Arachnid?

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I had a leak on a service line to a house today. The 3/4in side of a 1in to 3/4 pack joint was leaking due to it being too short. So I had to use 2 pack joints (1in to 1in and 1in to 3/4in) and fabricate the right length of CTS in between. Pretty proud of this.

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The 17-inch titanium strip that caused the crash of Concord flight 4590.

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A wall driving robot

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Discovery

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Quick arch construction

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How manhole covers are replaced

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This 40 story hotel in Tokyo is being demolished from the inside at a rate of 2 floors per day, without using any explosives, so there's no noise pollution and no need for dust control.

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Snow tracks for cars

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The world's biggest radio telescope Square Kilometer Array being built right now looks just like a winter forest in the middle of the Australian Outback.

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I 3D printed this as one part

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No wet shoes today!

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Meanwhile in Germany

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Henry Dreyfuss (1959) - The measure of man and woman : human factors in design

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Thrust reversers of Boeing 737

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How a car window works

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Konecranes $55million, 170 ton crane nearing completion.

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BNC Chess

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What an amazing time to be alive

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3D printed chainmail

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Motor room of the cable cars in Montserrat

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This exoskeleton allows people with mobility disorders to be upright and mobile and walk for 4 hours continuously on a single charge

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T-shirt gatling gun

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Manhole cover in Wiesbaden, Germany

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Found over on r/WTF but i think this freaking awesome!

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Emergency water discharge of Deriner Dam in North-Eastern Turkey

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Very aesthetically appealing.

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Takaosan Interchange, Tokyo, Japan

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Drone stringing transmission lines

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Pneumatic Actuators with Integrated Valves with incredible fast valves

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The 29 Raptor motors visible as Spacex's BN4 is hoisted onto the orbital launch platform.

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Campfire

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This ingenious use of a Fibonacci spiral.

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2000 year old Roman Aqueduct in Turkey made from stone blocks managed to transport water from sources near village of Islamlar at 680 m a.s.l over a distance of 23 km to Patara at 50 m a.s.l. Aqueduct comprises 5 bridges & a stretch of pressurized conduit, an inverted siphon locally known Delikkemer

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Norwegian Oil Platform.

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I’ll take my fake internet points. Curta type I & II mechanical calculators. Found these at a local pawnshop for a total of $250. Both work fantastic and are a blast to use.

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Adam Savage's Egress Project Apollo hatch

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Underneath a street in Manhattan

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We doing arch bridges now? New River Gorge Bridge WV.

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The Arctic Gates oil terminal in the Novoportovskoye field

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Cross section render of ITER with the surrounding physical plant

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1960s Turbo Jet Powered Train

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Weld seam grinding

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Auto-grabbing bed to hold patient in zero gravity

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Flying chair

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Terex 33-19 Titan

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The quad turbocharged, W16 engine for the Bugatti Chiron is tested in a Veyron derived mule. Due to the increased size of the engine, wiring and reservoirs have been moved outside of the engine bay. A temporary scaffold provides chassis reinforcement and sensor/camera mounting points.

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First post didnt put the second picture, so here it is. Saturn V F1 engine recovered from the ocean floor, 4000 meters down.

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Oldham coupling allows for transmission of rotation between two shafts with slight radial misalignment

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The tuned mass damper of Taipei 101 skyscraper. A tuned mass damper is a device mounted in structures to reduce the amplitude of mechanical vibrations. Their application can prevent discomfort, damage, or outright structural failure.

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Simple ice cream machine

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If this isn’t engineering porn ...

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Riot Control Machine

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After the subsea cable cross-section, thought you all might like a cutaway version

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HMS Duncan squeezing bthrough a canal.

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Inertial Guidance System

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Google's 70 qbit Qauntum computer. A refrigerator festooned with microwave cables cools the Google’s quantum chip nearly to absolute zero.

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A few calculations were made in order to make this work.

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Omnigraph used to teach the Morse code to new telegraph and radio operators

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8,000hp towboat - this is what the rudder is in!

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VSR700 french naval drone from Airbus Helicopters being tested in operational conditions,

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World’s largest aircraft prepares to take off. Airlander 10, a spectacularly huge, helium-pumped aircraft, is unveiled fully assembled for the first time

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This Berky Ditch Cleaner / Mower is amazing

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MareNostrum supercomputer located in the Torre Girona chapel, @ Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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Two sets of cables designed to carry 12,500 amps, the bottom cable is a superconductor

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Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System - Las Vegas, Nevada

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Finally a proper spaghetti marshmallow challenge

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Pigeon trap

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The finest example of Klingon engineering in Scotland

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Cutaway of the new Porsche 992

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Wrenches

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Aperture-style stadium roof

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So what it’s purpose? “Oh, it flips water bottles”

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Motion compensated gangway for personnel transfer at sea

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The cross section of a container ship

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