Real Engineering – The World’s Oldest Construction Project: Sagrada Familia
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This video explains how this came to be and who conceived it.
The link Bob provided at the top is an attempt to convey the spiritual and emotional experience of being there.
This much longer video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0VDdtz6Eg ) shows much more detailed views of the facade statuary with identification and explanation of the reason for the drastically different styles, the different colors of the windows, and includes a tour up the inside of one of the towers.
i am continually amazed at what a human mind can conceive and what human hands can build.
I toured the site in 2001 and the advancements since then are tremendous. It was a pure construction site then where visitors had to step around sacks of cement and duck under scaffolding.
I imagine the upkeep of road networks is older.
I view HLLVs similarly…spires of their own kind.
The Eifle tower was started just a few years later, and was finished by the turn of the century!
Related: Engineering in the micro not the macro:
The INSANE Precision of The National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Interesting; https://youtu.be/uCyU97MoHFM?si=9gJr8T8COwdIYhWd 14 min.
In the micro and nanometers NIST has got it locked down, in the macro and buildings, not so much.
While we are on the subject of engineering let’s take a look at welding, a very close look:
Mind Blowing Welding in Super Slow Motion: https://youtu.be/ygLbldJF_dc?si=kDVEEopRYZHsdYyD 9 min.