WONDERS OF ENGINEERING

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

The world’s longest suspension bridge for 27 years after its 1937 opening, the 1.7-mile Golden Gate Bridge soars above the nearly 400-foot-deep strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Containing enough cable to circle the globe three times, the bridge can move more than two feet laterally to withstand the strait’s strong winds.

THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator, and it has played a tremendous role in modern cancer treatments. It is 175 meters long and has a circumference of 27 kilometers. It uses powerful magnets to direct sub atomic beams into each other and make particles collide with each other. Scientists then study the resultant of collided particles. This project has developed many imaging, manufacturing, and radiation solutions.

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

The International Space Station (ISS) is an engineering feat like no other. Roughly as large as an American football pitch and weighing in at around 925,000 lbs, this colossal project has helped us learn more about living and working in space than we could have ever imagined.�It was also a truly global effort: nations ranging from America to Russia provided parts for and assembled the ISS. The assembly alone took more than 30 missions