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Symbol of the Millennium: The Falkirk Wheel
The Falkirk Wheel, the world’s only rotating boat lift, is recognized as an engineering marvel and mechanical engineering masterpiece that has revitalized Scotland’s canal system.
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A New Zealand Amusement Park holds the world’s first human-powered monorail. Pedaling in transparent pods, riders can reach Lance Armstrong speeds and join together to go even faster. The Shweeb, as it’s called, was recently awarded $1 million by Google, in the hopes it could become a green mass transit solution. The decision, and the company, received some criticism and even ridicule, but detractors ignored key elements of the existing prototype and plans for the future.
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In its ongoing effort to make the popular GTW light railcar safer in the event of a head-on crash, Stadler Rail focused on a safety device on the front of the train car, called a crash module. Engineers tested the module design through a combination of dynamic physical testing and simulations in finite element analysis software, deemed an essential step in assuring train safety.
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To constitute a Technical Group of the ASME in accordance with the Society's Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules in the fields of environmental control of air pollution, noise, solid wastes, and other environmental contaminants, and the processing of wastes for recovery of resources, reuse, and disposal; and of transportation, transport systems, and vehicles traversing the Earth's land, atmosphere, water, and extraterrestrial domain.
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