Engineering Innovations
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T.S. Lowe’s 1861 Balloon Launch Washington, D.C., |
T.S.C. Lowe’s Observation Flight Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe demonstrated the use of a hydrogen-filled balloon in aerial reconnaissance through a series of tethered… |
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Tacoma Narrows Bridges Tacoma, WA |
Taken together, the 1940 and 1950 Tacoma Narrows bridges mark a significant turning point in the design of long-span suspension bridges. The original 1940 structure was designed… |
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Tehachapi Pass Railroad Line Walong, CA |
The Tehachapi Pass Railroad Line was cut through solid and decomposed granite by about 3,000 Chinese laborers using nothing more than picks, shovels, horse drawn carts, and… |
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Tennessee State Capitol Nashville, TN |
The Tennessee State Capitol, the first and only home of the Tennessee General Assembly, was designed by engineer and architect William Strickland. Since its construction, it has… |
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Texas Commerce Bank Building Houston, TX |
The tower was designed to rest on a continuous reinforced concrete mat, 4 feet thick, with the base of the slab 24 feet below street level. What makes the Texas Commerce Bank… |
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Thames Tunnel London, |
By the turn of the 19th century, London's streets were clogged with traffic. Over 3,700 passengers used the Thames River's main boat crossing each day, while wagons and carts were… |
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The Beckman pH Meter Pasadena, |
When Arnold Beckman, a professor of analytical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, was asked to devise a way to measure acidity in citrus fruit, the resulting “… |
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The Belle Isle Gas Turbine Oklahoma City, OK |
The Belle Isle gas turbine was installed in 1949 and was the first gas turbine built in the United States for the purpose of generating electric power. Its low cost and… |
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The Boeing Red Barn Seattle, WA |
This former shipyard was the first home of the The Boeing Company, founded in 1916. Affectionately called the Red Barn, this structure was built in 1909, and became the… |
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The Chemical Revolution - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris, |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier studied at the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (then "Collège Mazarin") from 1754 to 1761. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences… |
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The Cincinnati Observatory Cincinnati, OH |
The Cincinnati Observatory, “The Birthplace of American Astronomy,” is the oldest professional observatory in the United States. Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, the “Father… |
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The Circular, Corrugated, Galvinized Steel Grain Bins Manhattan, KS |
Prior to the development of circular, corrugated, galvanized steel grain bins, prefabricated, non-corrugated steel bins were used because of cost, portability, rodent resistance… |
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The Cotton Module Builder College Station, TX |
Cotton was once transported from farms to gins by wagons, trucks or trailers. Long waits to unload at the gin stalled harvests until haulers could return to the fields.… |
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The Dalles Lock and Dam The Dalles, OR |
The Dalles Lock and Dam was one of the largest, most complete, and complex multipurpose projects of its kind in the United States at the time of its construction. It provided an… |
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The First Flaked Cereal Battle Creek, MI |
In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother, Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, were making a granola type cereal for their patients in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a general health… |
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The Invention of Warfarin Madison, WI |
University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Karl Paul Link and his lab isolated an anticoagulant compound from spoiled sweet clover hay in 1939, after a Wisconsin farmer's cattle… |
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The Oliver Chilled Cast-Iron Plow South Bend, IN |
On June 30, 1857, James Oliver filed a patent application for chilling the wear face of cast-iron moldboard plows. While pouring molten cast iron in sand molds he circulated… |
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The Reactive Noble Gases Vancouver, BC |
In 1962 Neil Bartlett demonstrated the first reaction of a noble gas. The noble gas family of elements - helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon - had previously been… |
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The Red Wing Project on Utilization of Electricity Red Wing, MN |
The object of the Red Wing project was "To determine the optimum economic uses of electricity in agriculture and to study the value of electricity in improved living conditions on… |
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The USDA Small Watershed Program Stillwater, OK |
Since 1948, over 11,000 dams and associated conservation practices in more than 2,000 watershed projects encompassing 160 million acres in 47 states have been constructed as a… |
