7 Wonders of the World

Overview: The Panama Canal is one of the largest and indeed the longest man made structure in the world. For many hundreds of years, since the 1500s, sailors and engineers had wanted to build a canal on this route, but construction didn’t begin until 1880. The purpose of the Panama Canal is to provide a [...]

Overview: Delta Works is a complex network of structures in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta of the Netherlands. It was designed to shorten the length of the coastline along the Netherlands, to prevent the extensive flooding and storm damage these areas were experiencing. Construction on the Delta Works began in 1950, but these efforts were not intended [...]

Overview: Itaipu Dam is possibly the most quintessentially ‘modern’ of all seven modern wonders of the world, because it produces power for our millions of electric lights, showers, ovens, televisions and all the other gadgets we rely on so heavily today. To be more specific, the Itaipu Dam (located on the border of Brazil and [...]

Overview: In early January, 1933 construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge over the Golden Gate (North American Strait). The bridge was designed to make it possible to drive easily from the county of Marin to San Francisco city and its primary designer and engineer was Joseph Strauss. America’s Golden Gate Bridge [...]

Overview: By the time the 1970s hit Canada, the country’s provincial capital Toronto already had several skyscrapers. However, none of these provided TV, radio or telephone signals for the rest of the city, which meant that signals here were weak. Plans went ahead to build a structure taller than all the rest that could project [...]

Overview: Although the Channel Tunnel was a 20th century venture, the idea to link Great Britain with France was one that had been around for 192 years before it was actually built. In the early 1800s engineers proposed an under-sea tunnel, but fears over breaches of national security thwarted the plans and nothing was attempted [...]

Overview: In 1930s America, on St. Patrick’s day (March 17th) a team of workmen in Manhattan, New York embarked on what was to become the world’s tallest building for almost half a century onwards. The Empire State building was to join the Chrysler and 40 Wall Street buildings in a fight to become the tallest [...]