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Nantes' Grand Éléphant is a multi-story wood-and-steel walking machine that carries passengers through the former shipyards, with riders viewing the city from the height of a moving…
In the early 1930s, Austrian engineer Friedrich Schmiedl launched rockets carrying hundreds of letters between mountain communities, using parachutes to return the mail to earth.
Before radar, Britain built enormous concave concrete sound mirrors along the coast so listeners could hear distant aircraft engines and estimate their direction.
Early automobile inventors tested spring-loaded nets and scoops intended to catch a person before the wheels reached them.
The Vegetable Orchestra constructs fresh instruments from produce and performs with them before turning leftovers into soup.
