British
author Deborah Cadbury wrote Seven
Wonders of the Industrial World,
a book telling the stories of
seven great feats of engineering
of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. In 2003 the BBC made
a seven-part documentary series
on the book, with each episode
dramatising the construction one
of the wonders. The seven industrial
wonders are:
SS
Great Eastern-
The SS Great
Eastern was an iron sailing steam
ship designed by Isambard Kingdom
Brunel. She was the largest ship
ever built at the time of her
1858 launch, and had the capacity
to carry 4,000 passengers around
the world without refueling.
Bell
Rock Lighthouse -Bell
Rock Lighthouse is the world's
oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse
and was built on Bell Rock (also
known as Inchcape) in the North
Sea, 12 miles (18 km) off the
coast of Angus, Scotland, east
of the Firth of Tay.
Brooklyn
Bridge- The
Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest
suspension bridges in the United
States, stretches 5,989 feet (1825
m)[1] over the East River, connecting
the New York City boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn (on Long
Island).
London
sewerage system-
The London
sewerage system is part of the
water infrastructure serving London.
The modern roots of the system
were first developed during the
late 19th century, but as London
has grown the system has been
expanded and needs further investment.
First
Transcontinental Railroad-
The First
Transcontinental Railroad is the
popular name of the U.S. railroad
line (known at the time as the
Pacific Railroad) completed in
1869 between Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha,
Nebraska (via Ogden, Utah and
Sacramento, California) and Alameda,
California.
Panama
Canal-The
Panama Canal is a ship canal which
joins the Caribbean Sea and the
Pacific ocean. One of the largest
and most difficult engineering
projects ever undertaken, it had
an enormous impact on shipping
between the two oceans, replacing
the long and treacherous route
via the Drake Passage and Cape
Horn at the southernmost tip of
South America.
Hoover
Dam-
Hoover Dam, originally known as
Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity
dam in the Black Canyon of the
Colorado River, on the border
between the U.S. states of Arizona
and Nevada.