Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

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The Great Ship

Isambard Kingdom Brunel set out to build the largest ship ever constructed. Would it prove to be the engineer's finest hour, or his ultimate undoing?

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The Brooklyn Bridge

Without the contributions of John Roebling, his son and his son's wife, one of the world's most heavily traveled bridges might never have existed.

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The Bell Rock Lighthouse

In 1800 Robert Stevenson set about building a lighthouse on the deadly Bell Rock reef.

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Transcontinental Railway

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The Sewer King

As Victorian London's sewage problem reached crisis, Joseph Bazalgette had a solution.

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The Panama Canal

French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps has a plan to build a canal across Panama.

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The Hoover Dam

Over one hundred people died during the building of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.