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The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction

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California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath

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Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?

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The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges

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How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work

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How Water Recycling Works

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Why are Smokestacks So Tall?

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The Most Implausible Tunneling Method

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When Abandoned Mines Collapse

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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

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Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

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This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse

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All Dams Are Temporary

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A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

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What’s Inside a Manhole?

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Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?

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The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attrac

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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

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What’s the Deal with Base Plates?

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Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?

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Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

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1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours

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The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

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Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?

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When Infrastructure Gets Hacked

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The Hidden Engineering of Landfills

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Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?

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How French Drains Work

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When Natural Gas Had No Smell

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Why Bridges Don't Sink

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This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapse

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The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

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Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

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How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions

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Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

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Why Fish Ladders (Mostly) Work

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How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works

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How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines

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How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad

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Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

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How The Channel Tunnel Works

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How Railroad Crossings Work

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How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

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Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

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Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5

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How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4

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