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Airship mooring mast at Cardington, England (1926). An electric passenger lift ran up the centre of the 200 ft tall tower; at the top, a gangway connected to the nose

A thread on ship/boat lifts. Starting with the prettiest — Falkirk Wheel, Scotland (2002) The maddest — the Krasnoyarsk ship lift on the Yenisei River, the second largest in the

I know the average smartphone today has more power than all of them combined, but design-wise those early Cray supercomputers really blew their modern counterparts out of the water They

Surreal photos of the beach that briefly existed west of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, in the early 80s. The site, created out of landfill material from the

The gigantic Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, a concrete coffin holding 3.1 m cubic feet of US-produced nuclear waste. It's now at risk of collapsing, leaking out radioactive substances

Kirov Reservoir, Talas region, Kyrgyzstan (1975) Submerged Lenin sculptures in the 'Alley of Leaders' off the coast of Crimea, an underwater graveyard of busts and statues of erstwhile Communist icons

1970s 747 upper deck lounges. Yes please.© Boeing Mine's a Harvey Wallbanger

Abandoned houses in Mirlo Beach, a once thriving oceanfront town on North Carolina's Outer Banks now slowly being reclaimed by the sea (some of these buildings have since been moved