Engineering Innovations
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Houston Municipal Airport Terminal Houston, TX |
The terminal, designed by noted architect Joseph Finger and built by the Works Progress Administration, is a rare remaining example of classic art deco airport architecture,… |
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Houston Ship Channel Houston, TX |
The 50-mile Houston Ship Channel is a manmade port for ocean-going vessels, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston and Harris County, Texas. The waterway was originally… |
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Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1 McMinnville, OR |
Better known as the "Spruce Goose," the Howard Hughes Flying Boat was designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Co., to be the largest wood-constructed and the largest wingspan… |
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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Tunnel New York City to Hoboken , NY |
A transportation tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan and New Jersey was first considered in the 1860s, fueled by New York City's rapidly growing congestion and the… |
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Huey P. Long Bridge Bridge City, LA 70094, LA |
"It remains today one of the great bridge engineering accomplishments for railway and highway bridges built in the country." - Historic American Engineering Record, Southeast… |
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Huffman Prairie Dayton, OH |
On this 84-acre meadow in 1904 and 1905, the Wright Brothers successfully mastered the mechanics of controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight. The brothers also built the world… |
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Hughes Glomar Explorer -, |
A number of major engineering feats required to complete the tasks for the mission at hand, which were later used in further projects The Hughes Glomar Explorer was designed to… |
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Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit The Woodlands, TX |
Prior to 1909 the traditional fishtail bit scraped the rock and quickly dulled in service. The Hughes two-cone bit's revolutionary rolling action crushed hard-rock formations with… |
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Hume-Love Cutterbar and Reel Rosalia, WA |
Near This Location In The 1930's James E. Love And Horace D. Hume Of Garfield, Washington, Invented The Flexible Floating Cutterbar And The Tined Pickup Reel To Harvest Low-… |
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Hwaseong Fortress Suwon, Gyeonggi-do |
Built between 1794 and 1796 by the 22nd King of the Joseon Dynasty, Jeongio, this fortress is an outstanding example of early modern defensive works. Principally designed by Jeong… |
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Hydraulic-Inclined Plane System of the Morris Canal Phillipsburg to Newark Bay, NJ |
Morris Canal was built to transport coal from the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania to industrial markets in Newark and New York. The total length of the canal was 106 miles. The… |
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Hydraulics Laboratory at the University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
The Hydraulics Laboratory at The University of Iowa, renovated in 2001 and in 2003 renamed the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory, is the oldest university-based hydraulics… |
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Hydromatic Propeller Windsor Locks, CT |
Rapid development of aircraft design in the 1930s required many related innovations, including propeller design. The hydromatic propeller by Hamilton Standard marked a significant… |
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IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File San Jose, CA |
The IBM 350 disk drive storage development led to the breakthrough of on-line computer systems by providing the first storage device with random access to large volumes of data.… |
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Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH |
In operation since 1944, the Icing Research Tunnel is the oldest and largest refrigerated icing wind tunnel in the world. Technology developed there enables aircraft to fly safely… |
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Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company Winston-Salem, NC |
This run-of-the-river plant is a typical example of late nineteenth-century small-scale (750 kilowatt) low-head hydroelectric power technology. The Fries Manufacturing and Power… |
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Ifugao Rice Terraces Bananue, |
This is the oldest and most extensive use of terraces in the world. The 20,000 hectares of terraces represent a rearrangement of the Cordillera Mountain Range from bedrock to… |
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Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport, formerly Bridgeport Municipal Airport Stratford, CT |
Igor I. Sikorsky, engineering manager of the Vought – Sikorsky Division of the former United Aircraft Corporation, used the Stratford, Conn., sites to design, build, and test his… |
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Infrared Spectrometer and the Exploration of Mars Berkeley, CA |
As much as we know today about the planets of the solar system, it’s almost incomprehensible that a mere 50 years ago we knew almost nothing about them. Observations of even Mars… |
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Ingalls Building Cincinnati, OH |
The 16-story Ingalls Building, still in use today, was the world's first reinforced concrete skyscraper. Its success led to the acceptance of high-rise concrete construction in… |
