There is simply nothing better than a giant machine. Nothing. Not convinced? We've got a gallery of some of the most enormous machines in history that will take your breath away.
The 803 ft 10 in (245 m) long LZ 129 Hindenburg, the largest aircraft ever flown. It carried 50-72 passengers and had a crew of 40-61. This rigid airship was built between 1931 and 1936, but only flew for 14 months before it burned down while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey on May 6, 1937.
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A pair of NASA crawler-transporters, built in 1965, used to transport Saturn IB, Saturn V rockets, and the Space Shuttles to Launch Complex 39.
The vehicle is 131 ft (40 m) long and 114 ft (35 m) wide, has eight tracks (with 57 shoes each) and has a mass of 5,999,000 lb. (2,721,000 kg)
(Photo by Joe Raedle, Matt Stroshane and from Getty Images)
A bucket-wheel excavator named Bagger 288, built by the German Krupp in 1978. It's up to 721 ft (220 m) long and 315 ft (96 m) high.
Bagger 288 was the largest bucket-wheel excavator until 1995, when Bagger 293 was built. It's 17.2 ft (5.25 m) longer than its brother but their height is the same.
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Seawise Giant (later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis and Mont), the longest ship ever built (1,504.1 ft or 458.45 m), delivered in 1979, sold to Indian ship breakers in 2009, scrapped in 2010.
Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons; 724,239 short tons), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with adraft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. – according to Wikipedia.
The ship was bombed by an Iraqi aircraft during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, but later salvaged and restored.
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