Overview
Big, Bigger, Biggest is a documentary television series which aired on Nat Geo from 2008.
Each episode explores the engineering breakthroughs that have made it possible to develop the largest structures of today. Throughout the course of the episode, viewers are introduced to generally 4-7 landmark inventions that have enabled the engineers of today to construct the world's biggest structures. Footage of the construction of the world's biggest structure of its kind is accompanied by computer generated imagery which often has an element of black humor. This imagery shows the size of the object in meters, the various designs that may have been considered as well as what could happen if the engineers made a mistake, complete with animated figures running in panic.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Discovery/Science |
| Network: | National Geographic Channel |
| Watched by: | 385 995 636 |
| Total running time: | 14 hours 20 minutes |
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| Episodes: | 20 |
Subsequently, this shape of the bow was called an icebreaker, and the steamer itself was recognized as the prototype of a new type of icebreaker vessels.
The success and fame of the Britnev icebreaker design was brought by the cold winter of 1870/1871. That year, the Elbe and the waters of the Hamburg port froze. Shipping stopped, shipping company owners suffered losses. In this situation, the authorities of Hamburg for 300 rubles!!! They acquired the drawings of the Pilot from Britnev, redesigned several harbor steam vessels in his likeness, and restored navigation. The same example was followed by entrepreneurs from Denmark, Sweden and the USA. Later, as a result of the improvement of the British design, various countries developed their own icebreaker designs — icebreakers with a bow propeller (American type), Hamburg-type icebreakers, etc.
Who would have thought that an ordinary plastic cup on the runway could lead to a disaster. It became so scary.
It is still not clear from the series why the two countries bothered so much for the sake of Apollo-Soyuz, it is shown as if all efforts were for the sake of shaking hands, and not for science, common achievements, and easing the burden on each participant.
The mirror on the sleeve of the suit, what a simple and elegant solution! I thought there would be a control screen on my sleeve, but the engineers did a better job than me)
I love space, but in this series I still prefer episodes about purely earthly things...