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Machinery to fulfill the many needs of

our society today we're taking a look at

the top 15 most massive machines mankind

has ever created number 15 Bella's 75710

if you're running a construction project

or planning on moving large quantities

of material from one place to another

you're going to need a hauling truck, but

if you have substantial loads that need

to be transported, then you might just

require the use of the largest one ever

designed the fellas 75710 created by the

Belarusian company Bella's it's the

highest payload capacity haul truck

available the vehicle itself weighs 500

tonnes and can carry a further 500

tonnes of material it's more than 67

feet long 32 feet wide and 27 feet high

and its wheelbase alone is just over 26

feet across to power this gigantic

vehicle it uses a siemens mmt 500 drive

system which is powered by two MTU 16

cylinder four-stroke diesel engines

which each produced 2300 horsepower

this gives the 75710 an impressive top

speed of 40 miles per hour and even when

loaded on an incline of 10% it can

maintain a speed of up to 25 miles per

hour number 14 the 500 meter aperture

spherical radio telescope the 500 meter

aperture spherical radio telescope or

fast for short is the largest radio

telescope in the world that's made up of

a fully filled in structure located in

pang town county in southwest china it

was installed in an ideally sized

natural depression within the landscape

at 1600 feet in diameter its surface is

covered with adjustable metal panels

that are controlled by computer and the

feed antenna which is suspended above

the dish by cables it can also be

adjusted depending on what's being

observed fast took five years to build

and after opening for testing in 2016 it

took a further four years to reach full

operational capacity it's able to

observe wavelengths between 4 inches and

14 feet since entering service has now

detected 44 new pulsars that were

previously unknown

not only as fast dramatically increased

researchers ability to observe the

distant reaches of the universe but it

also has become a visitor attraction in

its own right

10 million tourists were thought to have

traveled to the remote region in 2017 to

get a glimpse of the enormous dish for

themselves and this has meant that those

in charge of running it have had to

strike a fine balance between

accommodating the needs of the visitors

to ensure the wider community is engaged

with their aims while also making sure

they're carrying out enough studies to

make the 180 million dollar cost of the

project worthwhile number 13 Prelude

FLNG oceanic oil fields around the world

are covered with large drilling

platforms designed to extract as much of

the valuable resource as possible but in

2013 shell launched the largest offshore

facility to have ever been built

known as the Prelude FLNG at over 1,600

feet long 243 feet wide and containing

more than 260 thousand tons of steel it

has five times the water displacement of

a nimitz-class aircraft carrier and an

estimated cost of 13 billion dollars

prelude has a full-time crew of 240 and

was specifically designed to work on the

prelude and concierto gas fields which

lie on 120 miles off the coast of

Australia it's secured in place by 16

seabed driven steel piles that are each

213 feet long and this means it's able

to withstand the worst weather that can

be thrown at it

including a category 5 typhoon after

initially being installed in place in

2017 Prelude began full operation in

2018 and is able to extract a hundred

and ten thousand barrels per day a

mixture of liquefied natural gas

condensate and liquefied petroleum gas

the sheer scale of this platform is

almost unimaginable but with a projected

lifespan of 25 years it'll secure

production from the valuable fields for

many years to come number 12 la

Princesse in 2008 celebrations in

Liverpool England were chosen for the

unveiling of one of the largest

mechanized vehicles ever made la

Princesse it was designed by a French

performance art company called la

machine who wanted to build a giant

robot spider that could walk through the

streets constructed from steel wood and

complex hydraulics it took

more than a year to complete but the

result was incredible weighing in at 37

tons it had 50 different axes of

movement and with the aid of 16 cranes

six forklift trucks eight cherry pickers

and a crew of more than 250 people it

was able to climb up and around

buildings and crawl through the city at

a speed of up to 2 miles per hour as a

part of the performance it was also

followed by a live band and was fitted

with numerous special effects so that it

was able to emit smoke fire rain wind

snow light and sound it's undoubtedly

one of the most elaborate entertainment

machines to ever be built and one that

would take incredible passion and

commitment to ever aim to beat number 11

truck Dino the robot dragon the German

town of Firth involved in Bavaria is

also known as the dragon city and they

take this association very seriously

every year a play called dragon stuff is

performed through the streets based on a

tradition that began as far back as the

16th century tells the story of st.

George slaying a dragon as you'd expect

the central spectacle of the play is the

dragon itself and in 2001 organized

decided that their prop was getting too

old and worn and plans were drawn up for

a giant dragon robot which would become

the largest independently walking robot

in the world it took nine years to be

designed and built and took center stage

during the play's performance in 2010

known as treading out the dragon weighs

11 tonnes and is powered by a 2-liter

turbo diesel engine it has a 40 foot

wingspan a huge tail and to move by

remote control it contains more than

1,000 feet of hydraulic lines and 4,000

feet of electrical wires for added

effect it can also carry seventeen and a

half gallons of fake blood and two and a

half gallons of liquid gas which allows

the monstrous beast to bleed and breathe

fire up to five feet from its mouth

number ten Antonov an-225 Mira

whenever you've traveled through an

International Airport you'll quite often

see aircraft that are much larger than

you'd expect from the Airbus a380 to

large cargo transports it almost seems

impossible that they'd ever be able to

lift up into the air but even they can't

stand up to the heaviest plane ever

bills the Antonov an-225 Mira only one

was built in 1985 it was the result of

the Soviet need to transport the burren

space plane which was their equivalent

of the space shuttle to carry the

spacecraft to the launch center the Mira

needed some serious stability and power

so the 276 foot long and 60 foot tall

aircraft with a 290 foot wingspan was

fitted with six progress d 18 t turbo

fans which could each generate two

hundred and twenty nine point five

kilonewtons of thrust this means that it

can take off with a maximum weight of

almost 1.5 million pounds and attain a

cruising speed of up to 500 miles per

hour following the end of the Soviet

shuttle program the Mira was mothballed

for eight years but new uses soon

emerged for the mega jet it's still

regularly used to this day for projects

ranging from delivering supplies to

relief organizations around the world

and to carry the largest pieces of air

cargo such as wind turbine blades and

the heaviest light generators for power

plants number nine overburden conveyor

bridge F 60 the lusatian coal fields in

Germany are a series of mines on the

country's border with Poland that

produce some of the largest quantities

of coal in the world having been in

operation for more than a half a century

the operators needed some heavy-duty

machinery to keep running at full

capacity which led to the development of

the overburden conveyor bridge F 65 of

these monster machines were built and

they're responsible for removing and

transporting the overburden which lies

over the coal seam out of the way

they're fitted with excavators on each

side which can remove almost 30,000 tons

of material every hour and have nine

conveyor belts to load onto their trucks

for disposal each one has a cutting

height of 200 feet and the vehicles

themselves are 260 feet long 790 feet

wide and 1647 feet long making them by

far the

the largest vehicles ever constructed as

well as one of the heaviest with an

operating weight of thirteen thousand

six hundred tons to put this into

perspective and f60 is longer than the

Empire State Building is tall which

represents a phenomenal feat of

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giant the see wise giant first sets sail

in 1979 and to this day remains the

largest ship to have ever been built it

was designed for use as a super tanker

and at fifteen hundred and four feet

long was so big that it was unable to

traverse the English Channel the Suez

Canal or the Panama Canal when fully

loaded the displacement was more than

650,000 tons and the bottom of the hull

would submerge up to 81 feet beneath the

water's surface building such a large

vessel didn't come without its problems

though and initially the sea wise giant

suffered from vibrations that were such

a concern that the company that had

commissioned it refused delivery

following a refit had performed closer

to how it was meant to and had 46 tanks

for crude oil and an enormous 230 tonne

rudder and a 50 ton propeller this

allowed it to reach a top speed of 16

and a half knots which is the equivalent

to 19 miles per hour that had a turning

circle of 2 miles and needed five and a

half miles to come to a full stop from

that speed throughout its operational

life the ship changed hands a number of

times and was even sunk during the

iran-iraq war in 1988 after being

salvaged and fixed it continued in

service and was finally scrapped in 2010

when smaller but faster vessels proved

to be far more economical

number seven typhoon crane ports around

the world are dealing with bigger ships

and larger loads so I have to keep up

with technology to be able to service

them at the untie raffle shipyard in

jung-tae China the largest crane in the

world was built to not only handle cargo

but to assist with the construction of

the super cruisers of the future known

as the typhoon crane it's rated to

handle loads of up to 20,000 tons and

holds the record for the three heaviest

lifts by a crane of all time

it was originally designed to install

modules on top of ship hulls that had

been built elsewhere and soon became the

go-to place for anyone wanting to build

a giant tanker at 393 feet wide and 436

feet tall it's able to service even the

most complicated of needs with a 262

foot lift height number six sparrow

Gustav thus fara Gustav was possibly the

most frightening weapon ever developed

and holds the record for being the

largest caliber rifled weapon ever

deployed in combat and the heaviest

mobile artillery machine ever

constructed it was to be that Nazis war

turning weapon and was just to turn a

fortune that meant it wasn't possible

for them to use as often as they would

have hoped

weighing fourteen hundred and ninety

tons it was transported on the back of a

train car and it was able to fire 7.7

ton shells to a distance of up to 29

miles

it was 155 feet long with a barrel

length of a hundred and six feet and

took a crew of 250 people three days to

set up once it was in position 14:31

inch rounds could be fired per day with

a muzzle velocity of up to 2,700 feet

per second and anything that stood in

its way was obliterated the only time it

was used effectively however was during

the Battle of Sevastopol against the

Soviet Union and during this mission the

Gustav successfully destroyed a

munitions depot that it was hidden 98

feet beneath ground level the weapon was

eventually destroyed by German troops

before the end of the Second World War

to prevent it from falling into Russian

hands and luckily no-one has ever felt

the need to recreate such a weapon since

number five Komatsu D 575 a super dozer

the Komatsu D 575 a is the largest

bulldozer in production and it's so

powerful that it's the preferred piece

of machinery at surface mines across the

u.s. Canada and Australia at 38 feet and

five inches long and 16 feet tall it's

able to move as much as a hundred and

twenty-five cubic yards of material on

each pass and can dig to a depth of up

to seven feet to do this the 168 ton

vehicle is powered by a 12 cylinder

four-stroke diesel engine that can

produce eleven hundred and fifty

horsepower and it's so big that it can't

simply drive itself to a new work site

it has to be dismantled and transported

on up to eight trucks before being

reassembled at the other end number four

the Panzer 8 mouse the German military

devoted huge resources towards

developing powerful weapons and had a

particular interest in creating the

biggest war machines ever invented this

led to the creation of the Panza eight

mouse which remains the largest fully

enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever

conceived only one full Mouse was ever

completed and it never entered service

because it was captured by the Soviets

before it was operational but had they

ever made it to the battlefields they

would have been almost unstoppable at 33

feet and 6 inches long 12 feet and 2

inches wide and just under 12 feet tall

the 207 ton vehicle required a 6 man

crew to operate which included a

commander a gunner two loaders

a driver and a radio operator it could

reach a top speed of 14 miles per hour

over virtually any terrain but because

it was so heavy it wasn't able to use

bridges and instead had to cross rivers

and was equipped with a snorkel so it

could submerge to depths of up to 26

feet the mouse was intended as a

breakthrough tank which could have

punched holes in enemy defenses without

taking much damage itself and almost

certainly would have changed the face of

the war if it had ever properly entered

service

number three the Large Hadron Collider

to understand and unlock the strangest

mysteries of the universe requires not

only a deep knowledge of physics but

also the equipment that enables the

necessary experiments to take place that

was the reason behind the construction

of the Large Hadron Collider which

enables scientists to confirm the

existence of an elusive particle called

the Higgs boson simply put the LHC is a

particle collider that is used to

accelerate particles to astonishing

speeds and at its maximum output and

shoot protons around that 17 mile tunnel

at just six point eight miles per hour

slower than the speed of light the

tunnel is lined with electromagnets to

control this process which make it by

far the largest machine ever built and

one of the most productive since opening

in 2010 the seven detectors have

achieved all they've set out to do and

more and now plans are in motion to

replace it with an even bigger Collider

that can further the answers of the

questions that have been raised as a

result of what the LHC is found number

two

Berthe tunnel borer the Alaskan Way

Viaduct is a crucial transport artery

through Seattle but following the 2001

Nisqually Earthquake it became clear

that the double-decker freeway posed a

safety hazard plans were put in place to

build a replacement rather than

constructing a new road above ground the

decision was made to carve a huge tunnel

under downtown Seattle

to connect the southern part of the city

to the north this result was the state

route 99 tunnel which is two miles long

and has double decked and is capable of

accommodating the hundred and ten

thousand vehicles that use the original

viaduct each day and more the problem

that the designers had to overcome was a

construction of the tunnel however was

that there wasn't a machine on earth big

enough to do what they needed part of

the project therefore involved designing

a new tunnel borer which became known as

Bertha and was the most massive one ever

built

the 6700 ton machine had a cutter head

diameter of 57 and a half feet and was

326 feet long at a cost of 80 million

dollars it had to be built at specialist

factories in Japan before being shipped

to Seattle and 41 parts and constructed

at the entrance to the plant tunnel it

began work in July of 2013 and despite

encountering several delays it completed

its job by April of 2017 as there was no

further use for Bertha however the

machine was dismantled at the end of the

route and only a few of the parts are

still in existence and are now at

display at a local Transportation Museum

as a record of the huge effort it took

to create the tunnel that millions of

people rely upon each year number one

the International Space Station first

launched in 1998 the International Space

Station isn't the largest machine or

vehicle ever built but it's definitely

one of the most impressive things ever

designed by humankind and has sent

plenty of records of its own it's

actually the ninth of the eleven space

stations that have entered Earth's orbit

but is by far the biggest of them all

with a modular design extra pieces have

regularly been sent up to attach to it

and currently it's 239 point 4 feet long

and 350 7.5 feet wide it was built and

is run as an international collaboration

between most of the nations on earth

that are involved in space exploration

and is an important tool for scientific

research for both studies of the effects

of microgravity and of understanding the

wider universe due to its position in

orbit the most impressive record that

the ISS holds is that it's the fastest

moving vehicle that any human has set

foot inside it circles the earth once

every 90 2.68 minutes which means it's

traveling at an astonishing 17,000 100

miles per hour even if it was possible

to reach this speed at ground level.
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