15 BIGGEST Machines of Mankind
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00:00Mankind has harnessed the power of machinery to fulfill the many needs of our society.
00:05Today, we're taking a look at the Top 15 Most Massive Machines Mankind Has Ever Created.
00:13Number 15. Bellahaz 75710
00:17If you're running a construction project or planning on moving large quantities of material from one place to another,
00:22then you're going to need a hauling truck.
00:24But if you have substantial loads that need to be transported,
00:27then you might just require the use of the largest one ever designed, the Bellahaz 75710.
00:33Created by the Belarusian company Bellahaz, it's the highest payload capacity haul truck available.
00:39The vehicle itself weighs 500 tons and can carry a further 500 tons of material.
00:45It's more than 67 feet long, 32 feet wide, and 27 feet high,
00:49and its wheelbase alone is just over 26 feet across.
00:53To power this gigantic vehicle, it uses a Siemens MMT500 drive system,
00:58which is powered by two MTU 16-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines, which each produce 2,300 horsepower.
01:05This gives the 75710 an impressive top speed of 40 miles per hour,
01:09and even when loaded on an incline of 10%, it can maintain a speed of up to 25 miles per hour.
01:17Number 14. The 500 Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope
01:22The 500 Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or FAST for short,
01:26is the largest radio telescope in the world that's made up of a fully filled-in structure.
01:31Located in Pingtung County in southwest China,
01:33it was installed in an ideally-sized natural depression within the landscape.
01:37At 1,600 feet in diameter, its surface is covered with adjustable metal panels that are controlled by computer,
01:43and the feed antenna, which is suspended above the dish by cables.
01:46It can also be adjusted depending on what's being observed.
01:50FAST took five years to build, and after opening for testing in 2016,
01:54it took a further four years to reach full operational capacity.
01:58It's able to observe wavelengths between 4 inches and 14 feet,
02:02and since entering service has now detected 44 new pulsars that were previously unknown.
02:07Not only has FAST dramatically increased research's ability to observe the distant reaches of the universe,
02:12but it also has become a visitor attraction in its own right.
02:16Ten million tourists were thought to have traveled to the remote region in 2017
02:19to get a glimpse of the enormous dish for themselves.
02:22And this has meant that those in charge of running it have had to strike a fine balance
02:26between accommodating the needs of the visitors to ensure the wider community is engaged with their aims,
02:31while also making sure they're carrying out enough studies to make the $180 million cost of the project worthwhile.
02:38Number 13. PRELUDE-FLNG
02:41Oceanic oil fields around the world are covered with large drilling platforms
02:46designed to extract as much of the valuable resource as possible.
02:49But in 2013, Shell launched the largest offshore facility to have ever been built,
02:54known as the PRELUDE-FLNG.
02:57At over 1,600 feet long, 243 feet wide, and containing more than 260,000 tons of steel,
03:04it has five times the water displacement of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
03:08At an estimated cost of $13 billion, PRELUDE has a full-time crew of 240,
03:14and was specifically designed to work on the PRELUDE and CONCERTO gas fields,
03:18which lie around 120 miles off the coast of Australia.
03:21It's secured in place by 16 seabed-driven steel piles that are each 213 feet long,
03:26and this means it's able to withstand the worst weather that can be thrown at it,
03:30including a Category 5 typhoon.
03:32After initially being installed in place in 2017, PRELUDE began full operation in 2018
03:37and is able to extract 110,000 barrels per day,
03:41a mixture of liquefied natural gas, condensate, and liquefied petroleum gas.
03:45The sheer scale of this platform is almost unimaginable,
03:49but with a projected lifespan of 25 years,
03:51it'll secure production from the valuable fields for many years to come.
03:56Number 12. LA PRINCESSE
03:59In 2008, celebrations in Liverpool, England,
04:02were chosen for the unveiling of one of the largest mechanized vehicles ever made,
04:06La Princesse.
04:07It was designed by a French performance art company called La Machine,
04:10who wanted to build a giant robot spider that could walk through the streets.
04:14Constructed from steel, wood, and complex hydraulics,
04:17it took more than a year to complete, but the result was incredible.
04:21Weighing in at 37 tons, it had 50 different axes of movement,
04:25and with the aid of 16 cranes, 6 forklift trucks, 8 cherry pickers,
04:28and a crew of more than 250 people,
04:30it was able to climb up and around buildings,
04:33and crawl through the city at a speed of up to 2 miles per hour.
04:36As a part of the performance, it was also followed by a live band,
04:39and was fitted with numerous special effects,
04:41so that it was able to emit smoke, fire, rain, wind, snow, light, and sound.
04:46It's undoubtedly one of the most elaborate entertainment machines to ever be built,
04:49and one that would take incredible passion and commitment to ever aim to beat.
04:55Number 11. Tradino the Robot Dragon
04:58The German town of Fürthenwald in Bavaria is also known as the Dragon City,
05:03and they take this association very seriously.
05:06Every year, a play called Drakenstadt is performed through the streets
05:09based on a tradition that began as far back as the 16th century.
05:12It tells the story of St. George slaying a dragon.
05:15As you'd expect, the central spectacle of the play is the dragon itself,
05:19and in 2001, Organized decided that their prop was getting too old and worn,
05:23and plans were drawn up for a giant dragon robot,
05:26which would become the largest independently walking robot in the world.
05:30It took nine years to be designed and built,
05:32and took center stage during the play's performance in 2010.
05:35Known as Tradino, the dragon weighs 11 tons,
05:38and is powered by a 2-liter turbo-diesel engine.
05:41It has a 40-foot wingspan, a huge tail,
05:44and to move by remote control, it contains more than 1,000 feet of hydraulic lines,
05:48and 4,000 feet of electrical wires.
05:50For added effect, it can also carry 17.5 gallons of fake blood
05:54and 2.5 gallons of liquid gas,
05:56which allows the monstrous beast to bleed and breathe fire up to 5 feet from its mouth.
06:07Whenever you've traveled through an international airport,
06:09you'll quite often see aircraft that are much larger than you'd expect,
06:12from the Airbus A380 to large cargo transports.
06:16It almost seems impossible that they'd ever be able to lift up into the air.
06:20But even they can't stand up to the heaviest plane ever built,
06:23the Antonov An-225 Mira.
06:26Only one was built in 1985,
06:28and it was the result of the Soviet need to transport the Buran spaceplane,
06:32which was their equivalent of the space shuttle.
06:34To carry the spacecraft to the launch center,
06:36the Mira needed some serious stability and power.
06:39So the 276-foot-long and 60-foot-tall aircraft,
06:42with a 290-foot wingspan,
06:44was fitted with six Progress D-18T turbofans,
06:47which could each generate 229.5 kilonewtons of thrust.
06:52This means that it can take off with a maximum weight of almost 1.5 million pounds
06:57and attain a cruising speed of up to 500 miles per hour.
07:01Following the end of the Soviet shuttle program,
07:03the Mira was mothballed for eight years,
07:05but new uses soon emerged for the megajet.
07:08It's still regularly used to this day for projects
07:10ranging from delivering supplies to relief organizations around the world
07:14and to carry the largest pieces of air cargo,
07:17such as wind turbine blades,
07:19and the heaviest light generators for power plants.
07:27The Lusatian Coalfields in Germany are a series of mines
07:30on the country's border with Poland
07:32that produce some of the largest quantities of coal in the world.
07:35Having been in operation for more than half a century,
07:37the operators needed some heavy-duty machinery to keep running at full capacity,
07:41which led to the development of the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F-60.
07:45Five of these monster machines were built,
07:48and they're responsible for removing and transporting the overburden,
07:51which lies over the coal seam, out of the way.
07:53They're fitted with excavators on each side,
07:55which can remove almost 30,000 tons of material every hour
07:59and have nine conveyor belts to load onto their trucks for disposal.
08:03Each one has a cutting height of 200 feet,
08:06and the vehicles themselves are 260 feet long, 790 feet wide,
08:10and 1,647 feet long,
08:13making them by far the longest and largest vehicles ever constructed,
08:17as well as one of the heaviest with an operating weight of 13,600 tons.
08:22To put this into perspective,
08:24an F-60 is longer than the Empire State Building is tall,
08:28which represents a phenomenal feat of engineering.
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08:43Number 8. SeaWise Giant
08:46The SeaWise Giant first set sail in 1979
08:49and to this day remains the largest ship to have ever been built.
08:52It was designed for use as a supertanker,
08:55and at 1,504 feet long was so big that it was unable to traverse the English Channel,
08:59the Suez Canal, or the Panama Canal.
09:02When fully loaded, the displacement was more than 650,000 tons,
09:06and the bottom of the hull would submerge up to 81 feet beneath the water's surface.
09:10Building such a large vessel didn't come without its problems, though,
09:13and initially the SeaWise Giant suffered from vibrations that were such a concern
09:17that the company that had commissioned it refused delivery.
09:20Following a refit, it performed closer to how it was meant to
09:23and had 46 tanks for crude oil
09:25and an enormous 230-ton rudder and a 50-ton propeller.
09:29This allowed it to reach a top speed of 16.5 knots,
09:32which is the equivalent to 19 miles per hour,
09:35but had a turning circle of 2 miles
09:37and needed 5.5 miles to come to a full stop from that speed.
09:41Throughout its operational life, the ship changed hands a number of times
09:45and was even sunk during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
09:48After being salvaged and fixed, it continued in service
09:51and was finally scrapped in 2010
09:53when smaller but faster vessels proved to be far more economical.
10:00Ports around the world are dealing with bigger ships and larger loads,
10:03so have to keep up with technology to be able to service them.
10:06At the Yantai Raffle Shipyard in Yantai, China,
10:09the largest crane in the world was built to not only handle cargo,
10:12but to assist with the construction of the supercruisers of the future.
10:16Known as the Taisun Crane,
10:18it's rated to handle loads of up to 20,000 tons
10:21and holds the record for the three heaviest lifts by a crane of all time.
10:25It was originally designed to install modules on top of ship hulls
10:28that had been built elsewhere
10:30and soon became the go-to place for anyone wanting to build a giant tanker.
10:34At 393 feet wide and 436 feet tall,
10:37it's able to service even the most complicated of needs
10:40with a 262 foot lift height.
10:47The Schwerer Gustav was possibly the most frightening weapon ever developed.
10:50It holds the record for being the largest caliber rifled weapon ever deployed in combat
10:55and the heaviest mobile artillery machine ever constructed.
10:58It was to be the Nazis' war-turning weapon
11:01and was just a turn of fortune that meant it wasn't possible for them to use as often as they would have hoped.
11:06Weighing 1,490 tons, it was transported on the back of a train car
11:11and was able to fire 7.7 ton shells to a distance of up to 29 miles.
11:17It was 155 feet long with a barrel length of 106 feet
11:21and took a crew of 250 people three days to set up once it was in position.
11:26Fourteen 31-inch rounds could be fired per day
11:29with a muzzle velocity of up to 2,700 feet per second
11:32and anything that stood in its way was obliterated.
11:35The only time it was used effectively, however,
11:38was during the Battle of Sevastopol against the Soviet Union.
11:41And during this mission, the Gustav successfully destroyed a munitions depot
11:45that was hidden 98 feet beneath ground level.
11:48The weapon was eventually destroyed by German troops before the end of the Second World War
11:52to prevent it from falling into Russian hands.
11:55Luckily, no one has ever felt the need to recreate such a weapon since.
12:05The Komatsu D-575A is the largest bulldozer in production
12:09and it's so powerful that it's the preferred piece of machinery
12:12at surface mines across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
12:16At 38 feet and 5 inches long and 16 feet tall,
12:20it's able to move as much as 125 cubic yards of material on each pass
12:24and can dig to a depth of up to 7 feet.
12:27To do this, the 168-ton vehicle is powered by a 12-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
12:32that can produce 1,150 horsepower.
12:34And it's so big that it can't simply drive itself to a new worksite.
12:38It has to be dismantled and transported on up to eight trucks
12:41before being reassembled at the other end.
12:48The German military devoted huge resources towards developing powerful weapons
12:52and had a particular interest in creating the biggest war machines ever invented.
12:56This led to the creation of the Panzer VIII Maus,
12:59which remains the largest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever conceived.
13:04Only one full Maus was ever completed
13:06and it never entered service because it was captured by the Soviets before it was operational.
13:10But had they ever made it to the battlefields, they would have been almost unstoppable.
13:14At 33 feet and 6 inches long, 12 feet and 2 inches wide,
13:18and just under 12 feet tall,
13:20the 207-ton vehicle required a six-man crew to operate,
13:24which included a commander, a gunner, two loaders, a driver, and a radio operator.
13:29It could reach a top speed of 14 miles per hour over virtually any terrain.
13:34But because it was so heavy, it wasn't able to use bridges
13:37and instead had to cross rivers
13:39and was equipped with a snorkel so it could submerge to depths of up to 26 feet.
13:43The Maus was intended as a breakthrough tank,
13:45which could have punched holes in enemy defenses without taking much damage itself
13:49and almost certainly would have changed the face of the war
13:52if it had ever properly entered service.
13:58To understand and unlock the strangest mysteries of the universe
14:02requires not only a deep knowledge of physics,
14:04but also the equipment that enables the necessary experiments to take place.
14:08That was the reason behind the construction of the Large Hadron Collider,
14:12which enables scientists to confirm the existence of an elusive particle called the Higgs boson.
14:17Simply put, the LHC is a particle collider
14:20that is used to accelerate particles to astonishing speeds,
14:23and at its maximum output can shoot protons around its 17-mile tunnel
14:28The tunnel etches 6.8 mph slower than the speed of light.
14:32The tunnel is lined with electromagnets to control this process,
14:35which make it by far the largest machine ever built and one of the most productive.
14:40Since opening in 2010, the seven detectors have achieved all they've set out to do, and more.
14:45And now plans are in motion to replace it with an even bigger collider
14:48that can further the answers of the questions that have been raised
14:51as a result of what the LHC has found.
14:58The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a crucial transport artery through Seattle,
15:02but following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake,
15:05it became clear that the double-decker freeway posed a safety hazard.
15:08Plans were put in place to build a replacement,
15:10but rather than constructing a new road above ground,
15:13the decision was made to carve a huge tunnel under downtown Seattle
15:17to connect the southern part of the city to the north.
15:19This result was the State Route 99 tunnel,
15:22which is two miles long and is double-decked,
15:24and is capable of accommodating the 110,000 vehicles
15:27that use the original viaduct each day and more.
15:30The problem that the designers had to overcome with the construction of the tunnel, however,
15:34was that there wasn't a machine on Earth big enough to do what they needed.
15:37Part of the project, therefore, involved designing a new tunnel borer,
15:41which became known as Bertha and was the most massive one ever built.
15:45The 6,700-ton machine had a cutterhead diameter of 57.5 feet and was 326 feet long,
15:52At a cost of $80 million, it had to be built at specialist factories in Japan
15:57before being shipped to Seattle in 41 parts and constructed at the entrance to the planned tunnel.
16:02It began work in July of 2013, and despite encountering several delays,
16:06it completed its job by April of 2017.
16:09As there was no further use for Bertha, however,
16:12the machine was dismantled at the end of the route,
16:14and only a few of the parts are still in existence,
16:17and are now at display at a local transportation museum
16:20as a record of the huge effort it took to create the tunnel that millions of people rely upon each year.
16:30First launched in 1998, the International Space Station isn't the largest machine or vehicle ever built,
16:36but it's definitely one of the most impressive things ever designed by humankind,
16:40and has set plenty of records of its own.
16:43It's actually the ninth of the 11 space stations that have entered Earth's orbit,
16:47but is by far the biggest of them all.
16:49With a modular design, extra pieces have regularly been sent up to attach to it,
16:54and currently it's 239.4 feet long and 357.5 feet wide.
17:00It was built and is run as an international collaboration
17:03between most of the nations on Earth that are involved in space exploration,
17:07and is an important tool for scientific research for both studies of the effects of microgravity
17:11and of understanding the wider universe.
17:14Due to its position in orbit, the most impressive record that the ISS holds
17:18is that it's the fastest moving vehicle that any human has set foot inside.
17:22It circles the Earth once every 92.68 minutes,
17:26which means it's traveling at an astonishing 17,100 miles per hour.
17:31Even if it was possible to reach this speed at ground level,
17:34you'd be able to travel from New York to Sydney, Australia in just 35 minutes.
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