Engineering Landmarks
This California structure, designed in 1917, has an official color of "international orange."
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the revolutionary V-type three-point version of what safety object in 1959?
What is a seatbelt?
Homer Simpson may not have had a degree in it, but this atomic subfield of engineering would be helpful for someone working at a power plant.
What is Nuclear?
This seals water in a toilet tank.
What is a flapper?
Who is George Washington?
Teddy Roosevelt was the first sitting U.S. president to make an international visit when he traveled approximately 4,000 miles south in 1906 to inspect this engineering project and awesome shortcut.
What is the Panama Canal?
Engineer Sherman Poppen is often credited as the inventor of the “Snurfer," which was later renamed what popularly-used winter sports equipment?
What is a snowboard?
In this field of study, you think about what an object, like an airplane, does to the air around it.
What is Aerodynamics?
A unit of electrical resistance that is represented by the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is Ohm?
After he made history as the first man to walk on the moon, this astronaut served as a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This is a paid tourist attraction in London, sometimes called the Millennium Wheel, that has a biological name and is a cantilevered observation wheel that allows people to see the city from high in the sky.
What is the London Eye?
This device, an example of ancient engineering, uses stored potential energy to fling a projectile great distances without any propellant and is sometimes referred to as a trebuchet.
What is a catapult?
This field of engineering works with things like glass, ceramics, metals, polymers, and nanocrystals, and may even discover or make new substances.
What is Materials Engineering?
This two-word term is used for the actual self-weight of an unloaded roof, floor, or similar surface.
What is dead load?
This former U.S. President, known for his Fireside Chats to reassure Americans during World War II, was not an engineer, but played a significant role in the Manhattan Project, a collaborative effort between many of the world's top scientists and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build an atomic bomb during World War II.
Who is FDR/Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Several famous examples of this Roman engineering feat can be found around the world, including the Pont du Gard in Nimes, France, and another in Segovia, Spain.
What is an aqueduct?
This first of its kind was created by an engineer working at Kodak in 1975.
What is the (first) electronic camera?
This type of engineering uses biopolymers, ceramics and hydrogels, self-assembling peptides, and composites for tissue for organs in the human body.
This is abbreviated as BTU and is a unit of heat energy.
What is British Thermal Unit?
Snore! This Elon Musk-founded tunneling firm raised $118 million in venture capital funding in April 2018.
What is The Boring Company?
First constructed in the 1930s, this concrete gravity dam in Washington is the largest power station in the U.S. (measured by installed capacity), and was built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.
What is the Grand Coulee Dam?
Claiming speeds of over 300 mph, Hennessey has made what may well be the fastest car in the world as of 2023.
What is the Venom F5 Roadster?
This subfield of engineering is a type of civil engineering that would include working on foundations for buildings, mining, and offshore construction.
What is Geotechnical?
This sounds like a Radiohead song, but is the term for the continued extension of an object while under a steady load.
What is creep?
This engineer, also called the "magician of iron," designed the skeletal framework for the Statue of Liberty and a tower that is named after him.
Who is Gustave Eiffel?