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What are America's Greatest Engineering Achievements?
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:21 pm
No doubt I'm being myopic but some that come to mind:
1) The Manhattan Project - considering it was during wartime.
2) The SR-71 Blackbird - was built as the RS-71 but announced by the idiot LBJ as SR-71 and the military didn't want to embarrass the president. Every project Mgr should go review Kelly's 14 Rules.
3) The Apollo Program - obviously I believe 12 men have walked on lunar regolith. Oh how NASA has fallen.
1) The Manhattan Project - considering it was during wartime.
2) The SR-71 Blackbird - was built as the RS-71 but announced by the idiot LBJ as SR-71 and the military didn't want to embarrass the president. Every project Mgr should go review Kelly's 14 Rules.
3) The Apollo Program - obviously I believe 12 men have walked on lunar regolith. Oh how NASA has fallen.
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 12:51 pm
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:22 pm to AlwysATgr
Hoover Dam
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:23 pm to AlwysATgr
The breast implant.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:23 pm to AlwysATgr
Merge coming into BR once you get off the bridge
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:24 pm to AlwysATgr
The Nissan Altima
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:24 pm to Fat and Happy
The Apollo Program
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:24 pm to AlwysATgr
McDonald’s ice cream machine
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:25 pm to AlwysATgr
Gotta be the luxor
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:25 pm to AlwysATgr
Sybian
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:26 pm to AlwysATgr
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Anerica's
Definitely not spelling
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:26 pm to slacker130
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Hoover Dam
Asbsolutely. Reading about the construction/engineering of the Hoover Dam is truly mind-blowing. They didn't even know if what they were doing was going to work. A lot of experimentation. Engineering on a scale that is hard to wrap the mind around.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:26 pm to AlwysATgr
Bucees
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:29 pm to AlwysATgr
Henry Ford's production line is way up there. He did not invent it, but Ford laid the blueprint for how we know manufacturing now.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:30 pm to AlwysATgr
Air conditioning.
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:30 pm to AlwysATgr
The Empire State Building.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:31 pm to AlwysATgr
Transcontinental Railroad
ARPANET
ARPANET
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:31 pm to AlwysATgr
Manhattan Project and Apollo are it
We struggle to put ships into space in 2025 and somehow they put men on moon 50 years ago.
We struggle to put ships into space in 2025 and somehow they put men on moon 50 years ago.
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:35 pm to AlwysATgr
Fleshlight.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:36 pm to AlwysATgr
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What are America's Greatest Engineering Achievements?
The button holding TigerFred's jeans together.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:37 pm to AlwysATgr
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What are America's Greatest Engineering Achievements?
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