Tag: Engineering

News / World - 8 years ago

Is Chongqing's 'horizontal skyscraper' the answer to overcrowded cities?

An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing. Eight skyscrapers are rising from the river banks: two above 350m and...

News / Mashable - 9 years ago

When engineers shut down Niagara Falls' water flow and found surprisingly few corpses

For a number of months in 1969, the torrent of water dashing over American Falls, one in every of three waterfalls that makes up Niagara Falls, was decreased to little greater than a trickle. American Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile,...