Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Shipbuilders in ancient Greece kept on expanding the size of their oared vessels until they built, during the third century BCE, a tessarakonteres , with 4,000 oarsmen. There are engineers who think that we will soon have wind turbines whose more than 200-meter diameter blades will fold, like palm fronds, in hurricanes.
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