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Hauling frozen humans up a snowy peak is structurally identical to loading tropical fruit into a port's storage. The first chairlift was adapted straight from…
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Pitched as a transit revolution, it mostly serves to slowly dangle passengers over an industrial stretch of water. It is the perfect commute for those who…
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That triangular fabric wing you see drifting over steep cliffs was actually developed by researchers desperately trying to invent a functional way for heavy…
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While heavily used by tourists, it functions as a legitimate way to bypass the harbor traffic below. You simply step into a cabin, glide over the water, and…
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Those picturesque trolley cars climbing impossibly steep hills don’t actually have motors propelling them forward. Instead, a massive centralized powerhouse…
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Bridges are terribly expensive to build over massive bodies of water. Russia solved this by stringing a giant wire across the Volga, letting daily commuters…
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