3 Of The Most Ambitious Engineering Projects Of All Time | Super Structures | Progress

This Super Structures marathon celebrates the world's most spectacular engineering challenges and monumental construction projects. Featuring the Panama Canal, the world's tallest buildings and the Channel Tunnel!
00:00 The Panama Canal
51:25 Sky Scrapers
01:42:55 Channel Tunnel
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[@pilnes]

Absolute lump-in-the-throat stuff. Thanks, Barry.

[@javig5045]

It neves ceases to amaze what the spirit of man can accomplish, I crossed the English Channel in summer of 1990 while on vacation on a propeller hover craft, and now it's on my bucket list to visit again and experience the Euro Tunnel....Incredible accomplishment!

[@djosearth3618]

"Chunnel" .. :)

[@mothermovementa]

I'm incredulous there was a time It didn't exist before 1998 😂

[@dthomas9230]

Tunnelers were like the hi-risers, both building a part of progress.

[@noelfisher428]

Asassasasassa

[@alanrusso2074]

Great video I love your interaction with the people you meet.

[@User0000000000000004]

The year 2000? The future looks awesome!

[@Andrew-su7vd]

Progress in modern digital technology is unstoppable. 👏 👏 👏

[@dthomas9230]

Wahabi terrorists are planned for because their sky fairy says learning is evil. They are like Amish...with shoulder-fired missile launchers and AR15s.

[@michaelspiller7139]

Thank you Ron

[@jakeanderson7309]

THE NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM at the Itsmus Of Tehuantepec in Mexico will be an alternative to move containers in about 8 hours from one side of the Pacific to the other side of the Atlantic. It will take loading and unloading. Much cheaper and without causing huge carbon impact or damage to the climate. If it doesn’t rain sufficient soon enough the PANAMA canal will continue reducing its traffic to huge vessels.

[@dalewallace4802]

As the year 2000 approaches, I thought this was old when it referenced the world trade center as part of the Manhattan skyline.

[@briancooper4177]

All for the rich man!

[@jahosaphet05]

the state of the art computer simulations that make the panama canal a much different place at about 46:30 that was just hilarious

[@wades623]

Was back in the 90s

[@MrHarissheikh]

Nice. Video

[@johnhauser5939]

I am wondering what year these shows were made. When they were talking about the world trade centers and saying they would be able to withstand the impact of even the biggest airplane ever made kind of got me thinking that I wonder what the person saying that on the show was thinking on the day of the attack back in 2001. That is a day that I will never for get and I think just about everyone in the United States would say the same thing.

[@steffenroy23]

I watched a documentary on Discovery channel just weeks after 9-11 that interviewed the original architect who unequivocally stated it was designed to withstand an airplane collision...he used the Boeing 707 as an example 😮...then that show never acted again

[@steffenroy23]

'Aired' not acted

[@johnhauser5939]

@@steffenroy23 Yeah that is pretty crazy. Wonder what their thoughts would have been at the time. Makes sense they did not air it though I do not think that would have went over very well.

[@javig5045]

Well in his defense, that was the biggest plane at the time, monday morning quarterbacking is always going to be perfect.

[@Shawn-yp9ic]

the calculations were correct and the bldg did indeed survive the impacts, however they never calculated if the bldg could survive the effects of the huge amounts of jet fuel burning and causing other burning materials for hours until the steel became weakened and eventually unable to support itself and collapsing in a scene that nobody who ever sees it can forget it. Horrific and so sad that men could do such things to other men out of a centuries old insane battles and wars over religion, with neither side being right and both locked into hate over fictions. Those of us who view BOTH sides as equally confused are sick of the killing and slaughter over who's god is bigger. It's time to stop the insanity and ban ALL mythical crap and those who spread it. Grow up and knock it off, we no longer die off at age 25 so face your life and live it and love it, then we cease to exist and others carry on. It's not so scary once you let go of the ridiculous fantasy and now scientifically understood truth. We're big kids now, lets act like it!

[@robboud5751]

OMG i New SUB 100%legit i love u so much thx

[@michaelgian2649]

@27:54 Granted that "Panama Canal Cross Section" is an artist's conception, wouldn't it have been a bit more proper to have drawn the second to topmost gates with their tops to the same as the topmosts?

[@UCFCamaroSS]

Luke Skywalker talking about skyscrapers

[@romanregman1469]

"It is now December 1987" That should be in the title!

[@okengineers]

How did They know they had to kill the mosquitos? It was Cuban Doctor Carlos J. Finlay who discovered it after 20 years for research. Americans became acquainted with his work during the Spanish American war.

[@richardtuholsky4028]

Let’s go brandon 🍦🍦🍦

[@njw5869]

Dark Branden is watching! , and he hasn’t been convicted of ANY crime. Not like the orange joker .

[@ConradPrefach-fp5dp]

I agree

[@gregholl5011]

An elevator that moves horizontally as well as vertically is a startrek turbolift.

[@steveharris7116]

We did not invade Panama, we had already been there for 90 years.

[@wadebradley7388]

We did invade with our military to take out manwell moriega. However you spell his name , we did it in the ups to take his administration out because all the cocaine importers were putting all of their money in the bank of panama. It's s pretty crazy moment in history. But I'm old, almost 58, so I remember it well.

[@steveharris7116]

@@wadebradley7388 It is Manuel Noriega and by that time we had had a military presence in Panama for over 80 years. And I was an infantry squad leader that lived in Panama during that time. I was there for over two years.

[@user-en9zs2wq1k]

MGM was 1980. As terrible as it was,it actually paved the way for many changes that have saved many others.

[@derekcarstensen9134]

In one of my lives I was an electrical fork lift mechanic for Dc electric, ev 100 controller system if I remember correctly it was a shunt controlled system if I am remembering ohms law correctly low voltage = high amperage I think this may be causing the diode to fail in the alternator, they used to have a tool called a handy man that would tests those gates in the diode to see if the gate held but that was twenty years and I sold mine years ago also my batter tester would test the alternator diode to see if the gate held on the diode

[@jayfwelter]

"In one of my lives" lol Thanks for sharing - cool stuff!

[@breezecreationsllc9381]

I was there in Panama.

[@DennyTolhurst-BARCH]

Narrated by Luke Skywalker, ever cool!

[@LuciaFiero]

55:11 Construction cat.

[@sheiladikshit5110]

"modern skyscrapers seem indestructable!" OBL: hold my double manhattan on the rocks.

[@user-en9zs2wq1k]

Probably the most ignorant comment I’ve seen on You Tube yet.

[@sheiladikshit5110]

@@user-en9zs2wq1k incredibly lulzy and you know it.

[@okengineers]

Worth mentioning Cuban Doctor Carlos J. Finlay who made possible the building of the canal and actually the de development of all the south of USA and the Caribbean.

[@matthuss1914]

What is the best way to advertise for a small startup?

[@davelangton5097]

How many unit joint a the same time I have iPhone and androids. Please …merci

[@robinsmith8846]

Weltron 8 track and radio AM / FM... Round white. Looks like a space helmet... tapes get stuck and dont play past song 1. :( can i send it for repair?

[@martinda7446]

A man a plan a canal Panama. A palindrome. Edit, its like a perfectly tuned universe...

[@wadebradley7388]

Thank you for getting the age of the earth correct!

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

It was Yellow Fever that killed the most. Mosquitoe control and railroads built the canal.

[@davidsdean]

Wasnt Yellow Fever, it was Malaria that killed most of the workers

[@larryvaughn5843]

What year was this documentary created?

[@johnhause7150]

All that death and treasure and we just gave it back to em.

[@letsgococo288]

Watch the Panama Deception

[@johnhause7150]

@@letsgococo288 my landlord was a spec ops guy in the 82nd airborne . He was there for the Noriega stuff. Ive heard stories. Its a big deal.

[@dthomas9230]

@@johnhause7150 5000 dead? Reagan did Grenada for a poll boost during election season like GHW did Iraq, and W did Iraq to get 2 SCOTUS seats-pro-life.

[@barbaraolson6783]

Unfortunately the Panama Canal is undergoing some issues, due to global climate, weather and political changes. The Panama Ca nail was / is a true wonder of the modern world. The Canal made travel and shipping time shorter. The Panama Canal has an interesting story, history with engineering and global cooperation, please take time to study it, as it is worth your time and effort.

[@user-vw2cx9wx6r]

you believe that ? whom told you this , your t v set ?

[@retsamyar]

@@user-vw2cx9wx6r yes its all a grand conspiracy to make you gender neutral! beware! ..... get back to watching RT and being gullible.

[@N4CR5]

Climate lol. What happened when the ice age ended? Why was CO2 significantly higher in dinosaur age? It's cyclical and changes all the time.. climate change is an obvious thing if you look.

[@dthomas9230]

Columbia offered to help build the canal through their country but wanted 50%. US wanted 90% and 10% to Columbia. No deal so an insurrection and the Panamanians said USA could build it for 90/10 as long as Panama got its own country. Panama was part of Columbia, like Israel was part of British Palestine.

[@Kunfucious577]

@@dthomas9230so Panama got the own country and the world got the Panama Canal. Now they own the Panama Canal as promised. What’s the problem?

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Where is the data on the distributions of steel and concrete down any skyscrapers, including the basement levels?

[@mattrenolds8480]

Ive seen ones that weren't running, im guessing it was out of gas. The narrator said it required electricity for lubrication?

[@justinmyers6737]

The first 10 min of the sky scrapper segment. Just a couple years prior to 911. Yikes.

[@brywayvoccini1682]

If it's that important ...and it obviously is.... why did we give it away to somebody else?

[@nunyabidness117]

How is Hillary like the Panama canal? Well, one is a busy ditch..

[@l3uIletpoints]

Yeah... that second video, about the Twin Towers "absorbing damage" didnt exactly age well.

[@user-en9zs2wq1k]

Actually the WTC did absorb the impact far above expectations since it was over 30 years later. What it didn’t account for was the massive heat from the fires from the aviation fuel and all the fire suppression systems being rendered useless after impact. Had they not been able to absorb the impacts and stand as long as they did the deaths would have been far higher in numbers. Especially on the ground and other buildings.

[@jondurr]

Aka Pineapple Face!

[@gregorybyrne2453]

Make them true loops.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

China is negotiating to build a second canal in Central America. Also the Panama canal is outdated in many ways including its size. The biggest ships have not been able to pass through for many many years.

[@simengrneng7708]

What abort Burj Khalida?

[@progress-technology]

That wasn't built until after this series, which is a shame because I'd love to see a Super Structures episode on that!

[@fredflintstone2234]

And WHY did the USA give the canal away??

[@wadebradley7388]

I sure wished we hadn't. But I believe it was in the contract when we built it. But I think it was a big big mistake. But should we have to. We could take it back by force if any nation should try to stop the flow through it.

[@davidsdean]

@@wadebradley7388 there is no need to take the canal from Panama by Force, Panama is an ally, USA would protect it from evil doer's, in fact the United Nations would have a big hand in protecting it as well.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

Mine's bigger than yours. I guess that applies to buildings too.

[@NazreWallace]

Marc coordinate longitude latitude land plane degree

[@easygeezeenlightenment]

I tried to watch but 2 minutes in and the stupid music playing over the words is horrible. Not gonna bother

[@allengilby3054]

Which president gave the canal to Panama?

[@dthomas9230]

Panama was under a lease, and Carter honored it, like Hong Kong was British for 99 years, before they gave it back.

[@AtangMatieaOnlinePortfolio]

keep the facts straight and remeber the dynamics of history. the use of language is crucial.

[@jackie6343]

Not just the usa

[@blackunitsound]

What the hell panama is going to do with it goes to war against the fanch

[@letien3901]

And mostly use by chinese today,thanks for the hard working american

[@RogerGertz-uw1vj]

RAG LLC Museum Of Science Educational I live in the middle of the canal Zone JOTC training operations forces of artilleryman. I received many inside your own armorer weapons and much more. Sincerely Professor Roger Anthony Gertz Sr.

[@terryhayward7905]

High rise building are really difficult to design to be safe. So why do they build them ?? The US has a huge amount of open space where it would be simpler, cheaper and safer to build low buildings. But of course it MUST be the biggest and tallest in the world.

[@frescoservice5124]

Its actually cheaper to build up then have to worry about plumbing electrical grid and residents commuting that’s what I always thought

[@edmoore3910]

No no and hell no, I'm keeping my feet on the ground

[@tanthiennguyen9308]

Romanhörn Stahl

[@Kivetonandrew]

So where is the aircraft carrier surrounded by sand. Oh sorry, my mistake, its another clickbait lie. Why are they allowed?

[@nomennescio1154]

Edison? Edison !!? (Assholleon)

[@sntmichael]

Idk if humans won25,000 people died in the construction. That’s crazy

[@DomyTheMad420]

07:50 i can't stop facepalming in both horror and shock at this horrific concept literally sleeping above the breeding ground of the thing that kills you

[@tonyhawk123]

And at the time those afflicted were literally face palming

[@Nehmo]

It's ironic, of course, that obstructing ant paths amounted to providing more breeding areas for mosquitoes, but mosquitoes can fly, and the addition of a few square centimeters of water surface is insignificant.

[@dthomas9230]

@@Nehmo I think they lay eggs in water.

[@dthomas9230]

25,000 dead from mosquitos. Sickle cell patients are immune to malaria.

[@20chocsaday]

Float some paraffin on the water. It seels off the Oxygen and mosquitoes die passing through it. But don't smoke.

[@Phil_Scott]

Stockton Rush was both forgivable, unforgiveable, a smart man, and a blithering idiot at the same time... I do not know what else to say... may he rest in peace like tooth paste now.... and those went with him should have known better. I am still amazed that so few of my fellow engineers did not see that carbon fibers are strong in tinsel strength and like any wet noodles do not resist lateral forces....acting at that point only as a matrix for the epoxy.

[@larryvaughn5843]

No tinsel for festivus poles which do have some tensile strength.

[@thinking-laaf]

No pumps for the Panama Canal means no mechanical breakdowns...

[@englishjona6458]

Suspected, Ronald Reagan is down in history as the biggest crack dealer EVER

[@wadebradley7388]

Hahahah, but also as the best president ever. Even many Dems liked Reagan. But we still had our bat shit crazy liberals in the 80s. But they believed in freedom of speech. Not indoctrinating children etc. Trump was using Reagans playbook, which it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make an economy thrive. If you think we're in tough times now, I remember under the Carter admin, waiting every other day for 3 gallons of gas. My mom's car was a 1973 mercury with a 460 big block. If you loosen all the regulations that Obama put in place to tax and prohibit growth, you get a stagnat economy like we had under Obama. Look how fast that turned around under Trump. I've heard a BUNCH of economists say that if we just went back to the 1960 regulations, and that's NOT getting rid of any safety or environmental regulations, that our economy could be 4 times larger than it is now! Instead, we made it profitable for companies to flee to Mexico and China! Just think, 4 times bigger, actually as bad as it is now, and when I heard this first 6 years ago, it would be 6 or 7 times as big as it is now! We ALL could be rich! In the ups, Reagan built our military back up, because it was in bad bad shape. So with his policies, in 1981 I took machine tool technology, {machine shop} in high school, 2 periods a day. And I got a job right out of high school at Boeing. By the age of 19 I had a 1977 trans am. Built. And a brand new 1987 Toyota truck! Lifted and tired and a roll bar. AND an apartment. With a live in girlfriend who didn't have to work! We could have that now! Instead we have presidents like Biden who is purposefully trying to break us, make us poorer. Well he's done that!

[@RosannaMcKinley]

Are you hiring?

[@RogerGertz-uw1vj]

RAG LLC Museum Of Science Educational The defence of the canal Zone JOTC training insect bite. Sincerely Professor Roger Anthony Gertz Sr.

[@charlesferdinand422]

I'm sorry but I istruggle to see Leslie Robertson @1:18:11 who was the structural engineer for the WTC Twin Towers, because no matter what everyone says, truth is they built the Twin Towers for shit: weak and wobbly, sacrificing safety for speed of construction and lower costs, focusing on maximizing open space for businesses, with interiors made of drywall and plaster; not just the towers didn't resist but they took with them thousands who couldn't escape after their emergency exists collapsed while most of their systems failed immediately (like water sprinklers or the PA); and on top of all, their aesthetic design was hideous.

[@rafaelsena3181]

Its my impression or they admitted that a airplane couldn’t bring the tower down 😂 busted

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Sombody should do that if they have bed bugs put each bedleg in a glass of water with soap they should of used soap.

[@wadebradley7388]

Can you explain that further? I'm curious. Thx!

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

@@wadebradley7388 instead of having bed bugs put each bed leg in water with soap so the bed bugs cant crawl up the bed.

[@computerpro123abc]

FYI: Most of the construction workers were black workers from Trinidad and other west Indian islands and most of the casualties. NOT AMERICANS AS THIS DOCUMENTARY CLAIMS.

[@user-ff8es1tl9d]

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.

[@mikefromflorida8357]

Please stop calling concrete cement.

[@RazingthenRaising]

For as much as the Panama Canal took a lot of work, the Erie Canal was actually more technically challenging. The Panama is just in bad ground.

[@barbaraolson6783]

Both are interesting challenges. Erie did not have the political challenges, impact on global shipping , trade and the travel industries.

[@RazingthenRaising]

@@barbaraolson6783 For its time, it truly was. But for the current time, you are correct.

[@Kunfucious577]

Yeah but I think the times they were built should be included in that technicality debate. They didn’t have the same technology and knowledge of germ theory when they built the Panama canal

[@markgarin6355]

Oh yes..... let's go on vacation to a place with tropical diseases to see a whole in the ground.... And why do i think the wrong people died during those accidents (as in not responsible)?

[@izzzzzz6]

Excuse me Mr and Mrs Panama. I don't think you quite see the value in what you have here. We will just take it from you then. Thank you very much. Merica!

[@edmoore3910]

Then we were dumb enough to give it away.

[@mickgatz214]

CCP/China should watch this video for educational purpose/s. 😂👍 (They might learn something). ;)

[@GlobalistJuice]

White men build. It's in his DNA. It's what he does. ...and it is good. Can we get a "Hip Hip Hooray!" for the White man, and proclaim how much we love him, instead of demanding he is to be hated? Thx. 👍

[@tonydenial1485]

A comment made by an american talking head about the Japanese launching of planes from a submarine was not true, the British had a sub called the M2 which could launch a plane in WW1 sadly it sank when the drunken skeleton crew showing off to their wives and girlfriends submerged with hangar doors open and it flooded.

[@andypandyc]

A

[@briancooper4177]

For what?

[@perfectsamuel3750]

Why the army to clean mosquito mainly black folks

[@ivankreizi6315]

Damn this did not age well

[@user-zw6tz7cz3c]

a

[@Tropikaybay]

And after all the engineering and manual U.S. labor and people dying while building the canal, Democrat president, Jimmy Carter sold the Panama canal for $1 dollar and walked away. Companies now pay millions per year to cross the canal.

[@danielfox9461]

It's funny, not haha funny but surreal funny, watching a documentary about the first Wtc bombing, before the second bombing, acting like they learned stuff or made the place safer, umm yeah about that...

[@jetsetter8541]

Skyscrapers syndrome is a fobia I have had even before 911 . Altitude is good for aircrafts not for me. I like to live in tropical gardens settings. Skyscrapers are indication of the earth's overpopulation. Up to 3 stories high feels comfortable for my standard of luxury living.

[@ConradPrefach-fp5dp]

IHo pp e the world doernd distoy it's selph

[@andrewgalloway7344]

Cesar Pelli needs to understand that the sikoya and the oak dont feel achievment, they photosynthesize... and the light comes from above so up they go. A far more important function than some Icarus defying mystic nonsense Mr Pelli quotes like some old construction sage.

[@user-fd7ju5sb6b]

Jamaicans built the canal

[@mikescahill277]

BS alert!

[@Manzplained]

It never fails! I want to trust all the data in your video, then you pronounce Bucyrus “boo-cyrus” and I loose all trust for everything else you’re presenting. That sucks too because they’re decent videos.

[@Shawn-yp9ic]

maybe you shouldn't make so much out of a simple mispronunciation then?

[@ectofix8447]

Yes, the narrator from over twenty years ago was so rushed to post this in 2023 that he didn't have time to correct that pronunciation. I getcha. 😶

[@Shawn-yp9ic]

@@ectofix8447 some times people never correct little insignificant things and most of us don't obsesses over them. A typo, a mispronunciation, a misspelling, humans will make little mistakes unless they're perfect like you I guess. I don't look for conspiracies behind every tiny mistake when its things that occur daily. It must be bizarre being you and thinking all these little things have much bigger sinister causes. whatever floats your boat! Enjoy

[@ectofix8447]

@@Shawn-yp9ic You misinterpreted my comment to Manzplained. Nevertheless, you obviously spent some time composing a response to ME. Good work.

[@Shawn-yp9ic]

@@ectofix8447 My apologies to you if thats the case, it can get confusing who is saying what to whom sometimes. Your mistaken to think that I spent some time composing a reply. I don't take this stuff that seriously and Im never all worked up over it, (even when my reply gives that impression) lifes too short to let somebody who may just be trying to get to you, get to you. At 65 I'm not as excitable as I once was. Peace.

[@jetsgardner5490]

This collection is so dated, it's not even worth bothering with...

[@bindiberry6280]

This outdated concept of canal is too much overhead. Conservative water infrastructure along freeways against the evaporation of the hot Sun will be the way to go for hydrogen energy and modern vertical farming. online produce business should try to shorten distance for one day delivery logistically.

[@kevinm3751]

Yea Noriega was a vicious dictator all right! Only thing is he wasnt and in fact was one of the most beloved leaders in all of Central and South America! It was America corruption that made him out to be something he wasnt because he wanted control of the Panama Canal for his people and the US was not going to allow that to happen!

[@mromatic17]

we never should've gave up ownership of the panama canal! we built it and paid for it and our blood was spilled on that soil. panama wasn't even a thing back then. We should make it a satalite state and have all these illegals go there vs invading our border with inpunity.

[@GlobalistJuice]

And then the Biden Administration stood idle as China pushed itself into the region with investment, loans and infrastructure to widen accessibility of their presence and Panama took the cash and basically handed it over to China.

[@dthomas9230]

We started a civil war with Columbia to create Panama which was a region. Columbia wanted 50% of the canal revenue, USA said 10%. Columbia balked but some Columbians in Panama said 10% and our own country? Fine.