The Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy (GAG) jet engine inertisation unit of the Queensland Mine Rescue Service which has been flown all over the world putting out mine fires.

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Fully automated high performance rotary car dumpers for coal. They replaced five older models when they were constructed. The whole colliery is currently being demolished. (OC)

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The Slat Machinery on the Leading-Edge of the Wing of a B747-400

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Wartsila 50df Marine engine.

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[OC] Inside the wheel well of a Boeing 737-800

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A Planetary Gearbox for Wind Turbine Under Construction [1367×0912]

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Making a crankshaft [490 x 486].

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Titanic anchor chain.

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777 landing gear

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A 'Ramsden' Variety 'Influence' Type Electrostatic Generator

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The Whitefish Bay and ATB Maumee Tug Victory loading taconite pellets in Two Harbors MN. Worlds largest rubber duck as a bonus!

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Submarine [1080 x 1080].

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Schuler servo crossbar tandem line being installed at Daimler.

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Pratt and Whitney F135 engine getting installed into an F35 fighter jet.

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Caterpillar Excavator

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RD-276 engines of Proton-M rocket

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Heavy Duty Floor Stripper [575 x 575].

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A Tilly (Aircraft Carrier Crash Crane) is lifted from the deck of the carrier USS George H.W. Bush by a floating derrick (more in comments)

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Installing new Fanuc 210 payload robots and upgrading plc on tandem press line.

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Beautiful Beast - spotted this Ruston Bucyrus Steam Shovel creeping through the undergrowth at Beamish Living Museum. Made my day!

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This turbocharger fucks

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160MN eccentric press. Largest of its kind in the world.

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Gemini-Agena Target Docking Vehicle on the pad during Gemini X pre-launch prep

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The inside of a GTT cryogenic membrane tank. Photo by Wartsila

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After six years of silence, the thunder of manned space flight was heard again, as the successful launch of the first space shuttle on April 12, 1981.

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State of the art excavating, 1900s. Note the dipper, handle and boom assemblies are not unlike today's cable shovels. Location unknown but I am guessing Florida.

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Flight deck of challenger space shuttle

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Sawcutting machine for cutting asphalt and cement concrete, and maybe anything else in the way. Image via Seattle's Sound Transit agency

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Karrier KT4 gun tractor of the Indian Army

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Revolutionary submarine design from 1898-9 hardly anyone as heard of. Drawn in MS Paint [3072x1728]

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Airplane wing flap and slat configuration examples [2000 x 3191]

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WW II Sherman Tank with Prototype Anti-Landmine Features

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Atlas Centaur with Pioneer 10 Before Launch

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Big Truck [1015 x 768].

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The size of a 1956 5 MB hard drive [1000 x 954].

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got this installed recently at my works.

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Mudgun of the Volklingen ironworks, Germany [OC] Such machines are used to close the tab holes of blast furnaces.

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Cessna 414A Ram VII in for a little maintenance

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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey unfolding [840 x 360].

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This flaring spin tool

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Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX): the world's first 3D modular coil stellarator

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Lockheed YF-12 and North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the only two aircraft in history to be able to cruise at mach 3.

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Forging the pressure vessel for a nuclear reactor [664 x 767].

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Testing the tensile strength of a weld [728 x 728].

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Precision [728 x 910].

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The molten metal reactor from the Soviet Alfa Class submarine upside down draining the water out.

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Before 4WD tractors, there were tandem tractors [1080 x 843].

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The second largest Cat dozer, the D10

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Golden Gate Bridge Road Zipper [1000x562]

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Large Dredging Machine [1600×0932]

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John Deere 544J

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F-5E machine gun.

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A Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System pod undergoing refurbishment at Kennedy Space Center's Hypergol Maintenance Facility

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Ingot handling crane tongs [OC]

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Giant Crane at a nearby construction site

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Patriotic drill

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behind the control room of a coal power station

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300MN Forging press after full rebuild.

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Had a great time at the TN/KY Threasherman show yesterday.

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Old beat up Waltham pocket watch I found at a garage sale.

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Dredger Vessel

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HAARP High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska, a 40-acre antenna array capable of emitting high power radio waves to study ionospheric enhancement for the purpose of communications and surveillance, home of conspiracy theories for everything from mind control to weather weapons [OC]

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Monarch engine lathe ID plate, from earlier posting.

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The Leyat Helica, a French propeller driven automobile produced between 1919 & 1925 [585 x 767].

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Cruise ship construction [1000x562]

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This monster was in the barn behind our AirB&B in Las Cruces. Only date I could find was 1888.

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Andritz TX68 - largest high consistency refiner worldwide. Used for (chemi) thermo-mechanical pulp production. Up to 1800t/24h, max power up to 40MW.

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A 1914 Gilson 'Johnny On The Spot'. In an 'as found' condition, with plenty of repairs from it's working life. Running on a buzz coil.

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Tunnel in two days [848 x 480].

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A Vault Door

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Hauling plantain [576 x 854].

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Turbocore refrigerant compressor. A centrifugal compressor with magnetic axel so no oil is used. Also it can regulate its speed so it realy efficient.

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‘Evaluating the Effectiveness and Practicalities of Wind Tunnel Techniques for use with Flexible Downwind Sails’

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The rocket engine test facility at Yuzhmash, Ukraine. The huge tube is meant for venting exhaust gases.

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Under the hood of a Ferrari Formula 1 car.

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Swedish STRV122 behind a Scania T144 6x4 530 [1920x1278]

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Convair B-36 Peacemaker, 1949-59

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A montage of views of Voith-Schneider omnidirectional propellors: the first second & fourth frames being of complete propellor assemblies in-situ, & the third being of the blades @ overhaul.

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Nuclear waste truck [1000x562]

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here's a picture of an SR-71 Blackbird; one of the fastest planes/jets ever

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CNC Lathe [480 x 854].

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Laser printing on a shirt [480 x 854].

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The first tide predicting machine used in the United States - designed by William Ferrel, a mathematician with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and completed in 1882. An analogue computer, essentially.

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A Guillotine Belonging to 'Some Guy' in Nevada

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2000hp Aerzen V190 blower after a fresh overhaul. Blower trump card?

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The great white Vulcan !!. XM 603 at the Woodford Avro museum.

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German engineering: I drew a cutaway of a Type-212 submarine [2880x1920]

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A drawing of the ITER nuclear fusion reactor

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Weed brush [1000x562]

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Robot Riding a Bike [640 x 640].

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World's largest FLNG.

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All six of the surviving London North Eastern Railway or LNER A4 Pacifics at “The Great Goodbye” event in 2014. They were reunited for the anniversary of No. 4468 “Mallard” breaking the steam locomotive speed record on the 3rd of July 1938. Information in comments. Photo by A.Edkins [4767x2982]

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S160 Class Steam locomotive,built in 1945 by Lima of Ohio for the U.S. Army war effort in Europe, being shipped directly to Poland. Taken today at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

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A 41 year old 2 stroke engine, first one ive ever taken apart

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Road shoulder cutter [1000x562]

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An IBM 50-qubit prototype quantum computer cryostat [2861 x 3814]

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4”UNC spider bolts, anyone got big nuts ?

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Heard we were doing generators: here's a detail of the one remaining 120 year old gas turbine generator belonging to the »Maxhutte« steelworks in Thuringen, south-eastern Germany.

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Hummer with Reconfigurable wheel track [728 x 408].

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Rail mod for spider excavator [800x600]

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My Father's completely unrestored but fully working 1923 Alamo 1 1/2HP, sold by Lunt-Moss Co. 97 years old!

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Old machine that separates corn kernels

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One of the presses where I used to work

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Milling machine at work [533x300] (x-post r/geometryisneat)

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Harvesting corn [720 x 540].

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Sweeper the bell pepper-picking robot prototype

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Terex J 1170 Jaw Crusher being transported. Machine weighs about 110,000 pounds by itself.

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Vintage Power Drill, Chicago Pneumatic

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Beautiful hydro electric turbines 1927. Form and function at its best.

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Twisting cable [480 x 600].

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A drilling rig casually rolling down the road. Prudhoe Bay, Alaska [oc]

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A workman poses with one of 4 propeller bosses destined for the British ocean liner RMS Mauretania | Undated, but likely 1905-1906

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SS United States, the holder of the Blue Riband trophy since 1952. She had a maximum speed of around 38 knots(71km/h or 44mph) while having a mass of 53,000 GRT. A true speed monster.

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A380 turning onto JFK’s Runway 4L for the flight home to Dubai. Always find the size of those wings and vertical stabilizer incredible. (OC)

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The new Airbus Beluga XL [700 x 358].

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Update #5 another pice completed and filmed. It’s taking shape nicely I think. Will focus on the cam wheels next and get some push rods poking out of the front as well.

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Top casing a LM6000-PC HPC

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Great place to practice playing the bongles or drums...

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Bolivian F-86F being restored at the National Air & Space Museum.

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Renault R.S.19 front brake assembly (Formula 1) [4032 x 3024].

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10 meter gear being assembled

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Tractor looping

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Suddenly I really want a pineapple.

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Ferrari 158 with the rear bodywork off. The 158 was driven by John Surtees to the Formula 1 championship in 1964. The engine was a 1.5L V8, good for about 207hp.

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Hot coiling a huge spring [800 x 600].

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Napier Deltic cutaway model in York Railway Museum

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VB-10,000 Heavy Lift Claw

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My nail gun powered Pogo stick. Didn't very work well but was fun to make. Uses to nail guns to compress the springs further than just jumping. Was scary to use but a good laugh.

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Autonomous Cessna 208

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The NERVA nuclear rocket's Kiwi A Prime development reactor -- Jackass Flats Nevada Test Site in 1961 (story in comments)

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Autonomous pallet trucks [1000 x 562].

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Updated cutaway of the massive new submarine now doing sea trials in Russia [2880x1440]

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CH53 Super Stallion preparing to lift a HUMVEE

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Omnidirectional conveyor [1000x562]

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Would love to see this beast at work. Custom built AEC lorry with timber grab

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Dough rounder [1000x562]

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One of todays tasks, some deep hole drilling. 35mm insert. 650mm deep both sides. Had to drill the same both sides to meet in the middle. Drills flute length is 720mm. In all honesty this drill isn’t great. Randomly blows inserts. Deep hole drilling is something the company is dipping its toe in.

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Ikarus prototype bus that was supposed to deliver passengers directly to the aircraft from the early 80s

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Snow compressor [1000x562]

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This modified $200,000 Lamborghini Huracan features a gyro-stabilized camera rig on its hood, allowing it to keep up with the world’s fastest cars for photo and video shoots [1280 x 954].

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Nagra IV reel-to-reel recorder from the 1970s. Link in comments...

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Japan preparing for Hagibis Typhoon [1024 x 768].

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An efficient way to harvest carrots

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The visible Pratt & Whitney R2800 aircraft radial engine.

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