Extreme Engineering Research Paper

Extreme Engineering, which is a popular TV show on the Discovery Channel, is back on another dvd set. This two disc set, that's almost 6 hours long, was just released in 2009. Disc 1 explores the possibilities of building things that were coined in fiction. A bridge from continent to continent, or an underwater tunnel, that has a train travel from continent to continent. Disc 2 follows real things that have been constructed and built. In each of these episodes though, you will get to see alot of building, testing, and repairment. Disc 1: Episode List Bridging The Bering Strait- This is about building a bridge, thats connecting from North America to Asia. However this project if ever built, would face serious problems. Money, time, and mother

You get to see the construction team building there way to the top. Millou Viaduct- Built in France, this is a six lane highway on the largest bridge of the planet. After building the bridge it still had a gap. Thanks to clever engineering the bridge was pushed to close the gap by jacks. The jacks were a problem. The construction team had to work on the jacks to make it pushed. Big Easy Rebuild- This is the rebuilding project in New Orleans, from the damage of Hurricane Katrina. The city flooded, because of the levees and flood walls collapsed. Levees prevent water from overflowing a city, if built below sea level. The episode mainly focused on building new levees and flood walls. Biggest Warship- This is the building of the largest Aircraft carrier known to man. This would be bigger then the Empire State Building, lying flat down on the ground. After watching this set, it made me wish I could of follow this program from season to season. I loved how it had everything I liked, from construction, technology, science, and science fiction. This is a great buy, and I hope to pick up Volume 1 someday.DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION:The Contributor has no connection to nor was paid by the brand or product described in

Water is a necessity to live; thus command of water in and out of villages has been going on for thousands of years. Many distinct ways of going water from one location to another have been endeavored over the years. One demonstration is the construction of dams, not only to develop electrical power, but furthermore to conceive a plenty of water that can be conveyed to ranchers to water their crops. The water from the dam is dispatched through below ground conduits, aqueducts, to its last destination. Aqueducts were utilized by Greeks, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Egyptians for water transportation. These early civilizations supplied the dream for the Roman Empire to flawless the use of the aqueduct. In 97 AD, Sextus Julius Frontinus, the town authorized in ascribe of the water provide, is noted as saying: "I inquire you! Just contrast this huge array of vital organizations bearing so much water with the inactive Pyramids or the world-famous but ineffective monuments of the Greeks. In 97 AD, 300 gallons of water per individual a day ran into Rome through nine aqueducts. The Romans had done well in their dream of an aqueduct scheme providing Rome with water. Many persons, encompassing Frontinus, considered that the Roman aqueduct scheme was the utmost creation in the world because of what it conveyed to the persons of Rome. In the early days of Rome, the water