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Leonardo da Vinci
15 April 1452 (d67)
Born in Vinci in Florence
Bicycle sketch in Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus
Chain page of Codex Madrid I, folio 10r
Low friction ball bearing
Power Generation
http://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Electricity_Dec2014_Infographic.png
Circa 1796
The wind farm site spans 3 700 hectares on
Jeffrey’s Bay Wind Farm
which there are 60 wind turbines erected
800 m³/s
88m
Turbines: 4 x 90MW
By Aliwal2012 (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
By Roland zh, upload on 9. März 2009 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Head of the S-210 Tunnel boring machine used to excavate the eastern tube
of the Gotthard Base tunnel between Bodio and Faido, Canton Ticino, Switzerland
7000 MW
http://www.wsj.com/news/interactive/money1213goldin2
temperature was [60 degrees C] and
the humidity 95 percent. … We had gone as deep
as we could by cage: [4km]. From the surface to
the deepest tunnels, the journey took an hour,
and most of that time was spent on the last half
mile.”
Bucket-wheel excavator
Irish Typepad on Flickr [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
48 square km
© Raimond Spekking / CC-BY-SA-3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
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By excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world
Reinhard Jahn, Mannheim [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
https://www.cars24.com/blog/how-a-car-engine-works/
Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm
http://www.lumixgexperience.panasonic.co.uk/gallery/G10Col/steam-train-3/#.UvtEcfkaaNM
Taiwan High Speed Rail - 300km/h
Icarus
Crete
Photo edit of 1901 (left) and 1902 (right) Wright Brothers gliders
Device built by the Wright Brothers to test
lift, consisting of a wheel fixed to the
handlebars of a bicycle; wheel has two
surfaces mounted on it, one flat for
reference purposes and one experimental
Carl Malamud on Flickr [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)]
airfoil.
One-half left rear view
showing the aft (exhaust)
section of Wright Brothers'
wind tunnel
By Attributed to Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) and/or Orville Wright (1871–1948). Orville Wright preset the camera and had John T. Daniels squeeze the rubber bulb, tripping the shutter. (Great
Images in NASA Description) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
By Eduard Marmet [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
By SpaceX (Falcon Heavy Demo Mission) [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I8jaMsHYk
Graichen [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Food and Drug Administration [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Malamud on Flickr [CC BY NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)]