
Extreme Engineering
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S1 E1 - Tokyo's Sky City
12. april 200342minIn Japan, plans are on the table to build Sky City, the tallest structure on earth. The towering, vertical city will house more than 100,000 people. Sky City would be home to the world's very first homesteaders in the sky.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E2 - Transatlantic Tunnel
15. april 200345minRail travel may yet go intercontinental. In prototypes of floating tunnels, 5,000-mph magnetically levitated trains travel between New York, London and Paris. Passengers would dine and sleep while whales and nuclear subs glide around them.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E3 - Subways in America
14. april 200342minThe world's great cities have always struggled to find a balance between the need to attract more and more people and their ability to transport them efficiently.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E4 - Bridging the Bering Strait
29. april 200344minAlready on the drawing boards, The Bridge rejoins North America and Asia.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E5 - City in a Pyramid
22. april 200343minTokyo is one of the most crowded cities in the world. To relieve the stress on a city bursting at the seams, engineers look to build a massive Pyramid over the water, with skyscrapers suspended like peapods within its enormous frame.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E6 - Building Hong Kong's Airport
13. mai 200344minThe Hong Kong international airport is the largest civil engineering project in history and the largest enclosed space in the world. It is also 16 miles out to sea and built on a platform that was constructed by leveling two small islands.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E7 - Widening the Panama Canal
3. juni 200344minDaily, ships the size of a city block transport goods through the Panama Canal to make the 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Officials have asked a team of European and American engineers to compete for a winning lock design.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E8 - Tunneling Under the Alps
6. mai 200338minThis Swiss monster is the longest tunnel in the world.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E9 - Holland's Barriers to the Sea
20. mai 200340minThe Delta Works, a series of massive, computer-controlled sea barriers and dams, straddle each of the major rivers emptying into the delta. The Measlandkering is a gigantic sea surge barrier.Tilgjengelig for kjøpS1 E10 - Boston's Big Dig
27. mai 200334minIn a series of engineering firsts, two interstate highways are being rebuilt beneath Boston, sending its traffic 120 feet underground! The "Big Dig" will take more than 30 years to build, but not without confronting unprecedented challenges.Tilgjengelig for kjøp