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✅Don't miss our blog on "The Structural Engineering Behind the Eiffel Tower: An Iconic Case Study"

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From Humble Beginnings to Hi-Tech Marvels: The Fascinating History of HDD! Today, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is a cornerstone of trenchless technology, enabling us to install utilities and infrastructure with minimal surface disruption. But this wasn't always the case. Let's delve into the fascinating history of HDD, exploring its evolution from early techniques to the modern marvels used across industries like HDD Electrical, HDD Telecom, etc.

[historysisco]

On This Day in New York City History March 23, 1857: The first commercial passenger elevator is installed by Elisha Graves Otis in the E.V. Haughwout Building. The Haughwout Building was home to a five-story department store at 488 Broadway on the corner of Broadway and Broome Street in what is today the SOHO neighborhood of NYC. The elevator came at a cost of $300 dollars which in today's dollars would cost $10,373.79.

What made Otis' elevator successful and revolutionary was the safety brake that prevented the elevator from falling. The creation of safe elevators led to building being built higher up into the sky. Life as we know it in vertical cities of today wouldn't be what they are without the Otis elevators.

#ElishaOtis #OtisElevators #HaughwoutBuilding #EngineeringHistory #ArchitecturalHistory #NewYorkHistory #NYHistory #NYCHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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Why the Eiffel Tower is a Monument to Engineering Brilliance, an Archite... The Eiffel Tower: A Global Icon of Engineering Excellence https://youtu.be/ZvFrfD6KdcI?si=KlMhK-4SJEGgHN3G #kimludcom #EiffelTowerengineering #Iconicstructuresinengineering #HistoryoftheEiffelTower #Architecturalwonders #GustaveEiffelachievementsParislandmarks #STEMeducationthrougharchitecture #EiffelTower #EngineeringExcellence #GustaveEiffel #ArchitecturalMarvels #Paris #StructuralEngineering #CulturalIcons #EiffelTower #Engineering #Architecture #ParisLandmarks #InnovativeDesign #STEM #EngineeringHistory #EiffelTower #NotreDamedeParis #France #GustaveEiffel #kimlud

[jandela]

Constitution starting to look a bit more like ... well ... Constitution!

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Part of the former Ruston engineering works buildings during demolition in Lincoln, UK #ruston #rustonbucyrus #engineeringhistory #demolition #urbex #industrial #lincoln #lincolnshire #moodygrams #picoftheday (at Lincoln, Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5NHXkh-R-/?igshid=lavhyd95f1ao

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We know about the basics and history of engineering #engineering #engineeringhistory #leonardodavinci #charlesdarwin https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWDUgyhWYW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5siy1vmfwsb9

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engineeringhistory: Dorothy Whitaker at the National... https://ift.tt/36nyYun

[historysisco]

Today's Urban Exploration post takes me to the Bronx with a look at this magnificent church: St. Raymond's Catholic Church located at 1759 Castle Hill Avenue at East Tremont Avenue.

The parish was established in 1842 in the then Westchester Village in what was part of Westchester County. The area would become part of the Bronx in 1895. St. Raymond's has the distinction of being the first Catholic Church in the Bronx.

The original church was built in a converted barn and its first priest was Rev. Felix Villanis. With the unflux of Irish, German and Italian immigrants to the area the parish woulr outgrow their first church.

Set behind the original, Archbishop Corrigan laid the cornerstone for the present church on October 10, 1897. The church was designed by George H. Streeton in the Byzantine Revival-style. Amazingly the church was dedicated on October 23, 1898.

The church would grow to include an elementary school (1908), convent (1928), rectory (1931), brothers residence (1942), boys high school,Academy for girls (high school) and an auditorium and gymnasium that is still in operation today. St. Raymond Cemetery is the only Catholic cemetery in the Bronx.

#StRaymondsCatholicChuch #BronxHistory #ReligiousHistory #UrbanExploration #UrbanHistory #ArchitecturalHistory #EngineeringHistory #TouristInNY #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco #SiscoVanilla

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#OTD July the 3rd, 1938. Early on a sleepy Sunday morning, a 61 year old gentleman named Joe Duddington, and his fireman, a 38 year old named Thomas Bray, boarded the cab of a member of Sir Nigel Gresley's A4 Class of locomotive - No.4468 - 'Mallard'. Traveling down Stoke Bank, south of Grantham on the East Coast Main Line, the engine and its special train roared through the sleepy little village of Little Bytham at over 120mph, and shattered the windows with coal, thunderous cylinder beat and even the odd rivet. Residents looked out of their window to see only clouds of steam and hearing only the echoing growl of the engine's frantic pace of steam, spark and fire. Just south of the village, Joe Duddington's cap facing backwards and his hand on the regulator, the engine hit 125.88mph - registering on the speedometer as 126mph. In the process, she crippled herself on the middle cylinder, and was forced to abandon the journey (with many claiming she'd have reached 130 otherwise.) The fastest speed a steam engine has ever traveled to this day, and cementing Duddington, Bray, Gresley, the country and this miraculous locomotive's legacies forever. #onthisday #britishhistory #ukhistory #englishhistory #engineeringhistory #livinghistory #LNER #Gresley #sirnigelgresley #speedrecord #steamlocomotive #steamloco #steamengine #locomotive #train #rail #railway #littlebytham #UK #GreatBritain #Mallard #4468Mallard #A4locomotive #loco #railroad #history #heritage #1930s #30s

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The Engineering Library & Technology Commons is collaborating with @MUSpecColl to bring in historical engineering items from their collection! Published in 1855, this book on display in the Engineering Library’s cube is called “Railway Machinery”. The diagram pictured here is of a tank-locomotive. Author Daniel Kinnear Clark was a Scottish railway engineer. He drew the diagrams for this book himself. “Railway Engineering” was Clark’s first major publication and considered authoritative at it’s time of publication.⠀ ⠀ This text among others is currently on display at the Engineering Library.⠀ … #engineeringhistory #engineeringlibrary #trains #specialcollections #mizzou #universityofmissouri #librariesofinstagram

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On This Day in History May 31, 1859: The bell that was installed into the clock atop the 320-foot tall Elizabeth Tower known as "Big Ben" rings out for the first time. Why is it called Big Ben?

According to History.com:

"The name “Big Ben” originally just applied to the bell but later came to refer to the clock itself. Two main stories exist about how Big Ben got its name. Many claim it was named after the famously long-winded Sir Benjamin Hall, the London commissioner of works at the time it was built. Another famous story argues that the bell was named for the popular heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt, because it was the largest of its kind."

Big Ben has withstood the elements and incendiary bombs during World War II to become on of the icons of the landscape of London.

#BigBen #HousesofParliament #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #ArchitecturalHistory #EngineeringHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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Image via engineeringhistory tumblr

Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions Comments

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engineeringhistory: On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 Saturn V... https://ift.tt/32Hy0Xm