Tallest free-standing structure, tallest free-standing tower and tallest skyscraper
At 829.8 m, the Burj Khalifa is the tallest free-standing structure in the world and has the most storeys with 189 (163 of which are usable). The Burj Khalifa reached its final height on January 17th, 2009 and the inauguration took place on January 4th, 2010.
Biggest building
The New Century Global Center has a floor space of 1,760,000 square meters, making it the largest building in the world.
It has a height of 100 m and a base area of 500 m × 400 m.
The former KdF - Sea resort Prora on the island of Rügen is approximately 4.5 km long, however, consists of eight in a row standing buildings, each 550 m in length.
Longest skyscraper in Europe
The ten-storey Corviale residential complex in the south-west of Rome is 958 meters long. The building was built between 1972 and 1982 based on plans by the architect Mario Fiorentino .
The tower of the 1382 built church "Our Lady on mountains" of Bad Franken / Kyffhäuser (location 51 ° 21 '34.2 " N , 11 ° 6' 20.4" O ) has a 37 m tower body with an inclination of 5.42 ° and is therefore more inclined than the "most crooked tower in the world". To compensate for a fire in 1761, the new spire was placed at an angle, so that the entire tower had a slope of 4.76 ° in 2008.
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The tallest free-standing steel tower is the 385-meter-high Kiev television tower, completed in 1973 .
Tallest brick tower
The 130.1 meter high tower of Martinskirche (Landshut) , Germany, completed in 1500 , is the tallest brick tower in the world.
Highest wooden tower
The tallest wooden tower ever built was in Mühlacker . It was 190 meters high and served from its completion in 1934 until its destruction on April 6, 1945 as a support tower for a transmission antenna for medium wave.
The highest existing wooden tower is the transmission tower of the Gleiwitz transmitter, built in 1935, with a height of 118 meters.
The world's highest publicly accessible wood and steel tower is the Pyramidenkogel observation tower in Austria, with a total height of 100 m and an observation platform at 70.6 m. At the same time this tower houses the highest covered slide in Europe.
The highest publicly accessible wooden tower in Switzerland is the Chutzenturm in Seedorf with a height of 45 meters.
In December 2012, the Hannover-Marienwerder wind turbine was inaugurated near Hannover on the A2 , which is mounted on a 100 m high wooden tower. Tower weight approx. 200 t, approx. 400 m³ of spruce wood were used. The wood provided around 1000 trees. TimberTower is responsible for the idea and implementation. On top of the wooden tower there is a weight of approx. 100 t (power house and wind turbine rotor of the 1.5 MW system).
Highest accessible wooden building
The millennium tower in Magdeburg at 60 meters is considered to be the tallest wooden building in the world with a viewing platform at a height of 43 meters, which is higher than the platform of the Frankfurt Goethe Tower. Probably there is no higher accessible wooden building in the world.
With a width of 57.01 meters, a depth of 50.48 meters and a height of 48.74 meters, the main hall of the Tōdai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan is the largest building made entirely of wood in the world.
The 161.53 meter high tower of Ulm Minster in Ulm , Germany, completed in 1890 , is the tallest church tower in the world.
Largest synagogue
The world's largest synagogue is the Belz Beit HaMidrash HaGadol in Jerusalem . It was completed in 2000 and offers space for around 6000 people.
Tallest minaret
The tallest minaret at 265 meters is part of the Great Mosque of Algiers in the Algerian capital, Algiers, which was completed in 2019 . The minaret has 37 floors, making it the tallest building in Africa.
The 917 hectare Wadi as-Salam cemetery is located in the greater area of the city of Najaf , Iraq and is the largest cemetery in the world. Five million people are buried on it, with an additional half a million every year.
The 389 hectare Ohlsdorf cemetery in the Hamburg district of Ohlsdorf is the largest cemetery in Europe and is the largest park cemetery in the world.
Castles, chateaux, palaces
Largest palace
In terms of the walled area, the Forbidden City in Beijing , China , is the largest existing palace (total walled area 720,000 m², built area 150,000 m², 80,000 m² habitable area).
Measured by the size of the entire complex without a wall, Versailles , France , is the largest existing palace (110,000 m² of habitable area in the main building alone, 8,150,000 m² of area for the entire palace ensemble).
The largest castle residence still inhabited today is Windsor Castle , Great Britain (habitable area 45,000 m²).
The largest still inhabited palace in Europe is the Palacio Real (Madrid) , Spain (135,000 m² habitable area).
The Burghausen Castle above the old town of Burghausen is the longest castle complex in the world at 1051 m. It consists of six courtyards and, with a few exceptions, is made of tuff ashlars (travertine). A large part of the buildings and the character of the entire complex originate from the time when the Lower Bavarian line of the Wittelsbach family (1393–1505) was the residence .
Industrial buildings
Largest and highest industrial hall
The largest hall - in terms of both floor area and volume - is the Boeing Everett plant . It was built in 1968 for the final assembly of the Boeing 747 and is 13.3 million cubic meters in size. The hall has a floor area of 39.9 hectares, the entire area 415 hectares.
The largest self-supporting hall in the world, the Aerium near Berlin, now houses the “ Tropical Islands Resort”. The hall is 360 m long, 210 m wide, 107 m high and covers a space of 5.5 million m³.
Largest greenhouse
The largest greenhouse is formed by the glass domes of the Eden Project in Cornwall, which was completed in 2001. The area of the domes is 31,390 m².
The cooling towers of the Kalisindh power plant in Jhalawar , India, are the tallest cooling towers in the world at 202 meters high.
Highest overhead line mast (steel mast)
The two masts of the Yangtze overhead line crossing in Jiangyin, China, erected in 2003, are the highest overhead line masts in the world with a height of 346.5 meters and even tower over the Eiffel Tower.
Highest overhead line mast (concrete mast)
Mast number 301 of the Innertkirchen – Littau – Mettlen overhead line, erected in Littau at the end of 1990, is the highest spun concrete mast in the world. It is 59.5 meters high and weighs 307 tons. The mast designed as a portal mast with three cross members is a guy mast that is designed to accommodate two 380 kV and one 110 kV circuits.
Highest wind turbine
The tallest wind turbine of the natural electricity storage facility in Gaildorf , completed in 2017, is the largest wind turbine in the world with a total height of 246.5 meters. The tower itself is 178 meters high.
This means that this wind turbine surpasses the two wind turbines in the Nowy Tomyśl wind farm . With a total height of 210 meters, their steel lattice towers, like the Laasow wind turbine , reach a hub height of 160 meters. However, with a rotor diameter of 100 meters, the two plants in Nowy Tomyśl surpass the Laasow plant by 5 meters.
Largest photovoltaic systems
As of June 2019, the world's largest solar park is a photovoltaic power plant near the city of Golmud in the Chinese province of Qinghai ( Haixi autonomous district ). The output of the entire system is specified as 1800 MWp on the alternating current side. The Agua Caliente solar park in the US state of Arizona , which achieved an output of 250 MWp in September 2012 and was the world's largest solar system at the time, is no longer included in the list of the 15 largest solar systems in 2019.
The largest European solar park has been the Cestas solar park in France since December 2015 , which has an output of 300 MW p .
The largest single standing grain silos are located in Wichita , Kansas , United States . The 123 silos have a height of 37 meters and a diameter of 9.1 meters. The total capacity is 730,000 m³.
The largest crematorium in the world, the Nikolo Archangelsky Crematorium , is located in Moscow , Russia and has 7 twin crematoriums. The total area of the building is 210 ha.
Cultural buildings, museums, libraries, research institutions
Largest museum showcase
The largest museum showcase in Germany is located in the fully air-conditioned Kreuzkirche in Zittau . This special showcase has housed the Große Zittauer Lenten Cloth from 1472 since 1999. For lighting, more than 14,000 m glass fiber light guides with over 2700 light points were installed in light tubes of nine meters on both sides. 18 light source devices of 100 watts each with UV blocking filters up to 420 nm guarantee UV and IR- free lighting.
Largest planetarium
The Nagoya City Science Museum in Japan has the largest planetarium in the world . The dome has a diameter of 35 meters.
The largest cinema in Germany is located in the CinemaxX in Essen . It has 16 cinema halls and 5,152 seats.
Largest cinema room
The largest cinema in the world is located in the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice , Italy , where the annual Venice Film Festival takes place. There are 2400 seats in it.
Largest cinema screen
The largest cinema screen in the world is located in the IMAX Theater Sydney in Sydney , Australia, it is approx. 30 m high and 35 m long.
Bridges, tunnels, other traffic structures
Highest bridge
The Beipanjiang bridge , in China between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan crosses the valley of Beipan River is, with 565 m clear height between the road and the river bed, the highest bridge in the world; it is 1,341 m long and opened at the end of 2016.
The cable-stayed bridge Viaduc de Millau near Millau , France, has the tallest bridge pillar with a height of 343 meters. This height is made up of the 245 m high concrete pillar that extends to the roadway and the 98 m high steel pylon placed on it. At this height, the bridge pillar is France's tallest structure and also towers above the Eiffel Tower .
The bridge with the longest span (distance between two pillars) is the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan
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The longest 3D-printed bridge in the world is 28.1 meters long and is modeled on the Zhaozhou Bridge , a 1,400-year-old stone arch structure in the Chinese province of Hebei.
The tunnel through which Line 3 of the Guangzhou Metro runs is the longest continuous tunnel structure in the world at 60.4 km.
Largest lock
The 500 meter long and 68 meter wide Berendrechtsluis in Antwerp (Belgium) has been the largest sea lock in the world since 1989.
Highest cable car support
The aerial tramway across Halong Bay in the north of Vietnam, which opened in 2016, has the highest ropeway supports in the world with its two 188.8 m high concrete pillars.
Before that, the 113.6 meter high pillar of the 3rd section of the Kaprun III glacier lift in Austria, completed in 1966, was the highest cable car pillar in the world.
Largest parking lot
The parking lot with a total of 20,000 spaces in front of the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada is the largest in the world.
Tokyo Sky Tree (Japanese 東京 ス カ イ ツ リ ー, Tōkyō Sukai Tsurī) is the 634 meter high television and radio transmission tower in the Japanese capital Tokyo. The opening took place on May 22, 2012. Since its completion, it has been the tallest television tower and at the same time the second tallest free-standing structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa.
The Canton Tower in Guangzhou , China , has been the tallest television tower in the world at 610.8 m since the antenna was installed on May 5, 2009. The construction work was completely completed by the end of 2009. The opening ceremony took place on September 29, 2010 and a light show on the evening of the 30th. The tower has been open to the public since October 1st, with 12,000 visitors expected every day.
The CN Tower in Canada's Toronto was with 553.3 m in 1976 to 5 May 2009, the highest TV tower in the world and was up to 11 September 2007 at the same time the tallest freestanding structure in the world. Until the completion of the Shanghai World Financial Center in 2008, the CN Tower also held the record for the highest observation deck in the world at a height of 447 m.
The Ostankino television tower is the tallest television tower in Europe. It stands in Moscow , Russia and is 540 m high, when it was completed in 1967 it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world. In 1976, its height was exceeded
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The Berlin television tower with a height of 368.03 m, the highest television tower Germany.
Rides, sports buildings
Largest stationary ferris wheel
The High Roller in Las Vegas, Nevada is the tallest ferris wheel in the world. It is 167 m high and opened on April 1, 2014.
The London Eye at 135.36 m is currently the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe.
The 95.1 meter high observation tower Top of the World is the tallest transportable amusement ride ever built.
Highest wooden roller coaster
The tallest wooden roller coaster, Son of Beast, is in Kings Island Amusement Park in Ohio . With a length of 2143.4 m and 66.4 m height it is 14.4 m higher than Colossos in Heide-Park , the largest wooden roller coaster in Europe.
The largest stadium ever built was the Strahov Stadium in Prague for up to 220,000 spectators, although it is not a pure stadium in the modern sense, as it was primarily planned for socialist sporting mass events. The ancient Circus Maximus is said to have been even bigger.
The largest dam in the world, measured by the hydropower plant's output of 18,200 MW, is the Three Gorges Dam in China , which was completed on May 20, 2006 . In theory, it can generate 84 terawatt hours (TWh) per year. The dam structure on the Yangtze is not of outstanding size; it is “only” 2335 m long and “only” 181 m high.
The largest dam in the world, measured by the annual energy production of 95 TWh, is not the Three Gorges Dam, but rather the Itaipú hydropower plant on the border between Paraguay and Brazil .
The largest dam in the world, measured by the dammed water volume, is the Kariba dam on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia , with 180 billion cubic meters .
The largest dam in the world, measured in terms of water area, is the Volta Reservoir in Ghana , with an area of 8500 square kilometers .
The largest “ dam ” in the world, measured by the volume of the structure, is 540 million cubic meters at the edge of the “ Syncrude tailings pond ” in Canada .
The highest water fountain in the world has been the King Fahd's Fountain in Jeddah ( Saudi Arabia ) with a height of 312 m since 1985 , followed by the World Cup Fountain in Seoul ( South Korea ) with a height of 202 m and the Port Fountain in Karachi ( Pakistan ) with a height of 190 m.
Sewer
The largest drilled sewer pipe in the world is the Chicago TARP (Tunnels and Reservoir Plan) in Chicago , Illinois ( United States ) , with a length of 211 kilometers and a diameter of 2.7-10 meters .
Sewage treatment plant
The largest sewage treatment plant in the world is Chicago's West-Southwest Plant with a capacity of 1,280,000 m³. The average amount of treated wastewater is 3,160 million liters per day.
Other buildings
Oil rig
The Troll A gas production platform, weighing 683,000 tons, is the largest movable man-made object in the world.
The longest span of an overhead line is 5376 meters. It stretches across the Ameralik Fjord in Greenland.
Highest high voltage pylon in the world
The highest high-voltage pylon in the world stands at a height of 380 meters in the east Chinese province of Zhejiang and is part of the power line that connects the two Zhoushan islands of Cezi and Jintang and, from 2019, part of the new line between Zhoushan and Ningbo . The mast thus exceeds two masts a few kilometers south of a high-voltage line to the island of Zhoushan that has been in existence since 2010 by 10 meters.
The HVDC line Itaipu between the Itaipú power plant and the greater São Paulo area transmits an output of almost 6.3 GW (6296 MW) at a voltage of ± 600 kV . The HVDC line from the Xiangjiaba hydropower plant in southwest China and Shanghai , which is still under construction, transmits 6.4 GW (6400 MW) at a voltage of ± 800 kV.
Longest landline
The longest overhead line in the world is the 1700-kilometer HVDC Inga-Shaba in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The HVDC line from the Xiangjiaba hydropower station in southwest China and Shanghai is longer at 2071 kilometers, but it is still under construction.
Longest power cable
The longest HVDC submarine cable has been the NorNed between the Netherlands and Norway with 580 kilometers since 2008 . From 2006 to 2008 it was Basslink , a 290 km long HVDC submarine cable between Tasmania and Australia . The 250-kilometer-long monopolar land and submarine cable of the HVDC Baltic Cable between Lübeck-Herrenwyk and Haslov in Sweden is the third longest insulated power cable in the world (the last 12 kilometers of the HVDC Baltic Cable from Haslov to Arrie are overhead lines).
The longest three-phase cable is the 115-kilometer submarine cable for 90 kV between Great Britain and the Isle of Man .
An approx. 600 km long submarine cable from the north side of Borneo through the South China Sea to the Malay Peninsula has been in planning for a good ten years in Malaysia as part of the Bakun dam project , as there is no use for the expected electricity volume in all of Borneo. In order to reduce transmission losses, this line should be designed using cryogenics .
broadcast
Strongest radio station
The long-wave transmitter in Taldom, Russia and the medium-wave transmitter in Bolshakowo, Russia are considered to be the most powerful radio transmitters in the world with a transmission power of 2500 kilowatts.
Most powerful pirate station in the FM range
The strongest illegal station in the VHF range was Swiss Radio 24 . It was transmitting from Italy around 1980 with an effective radiation power of approx. 8 MW.
aviation
Largest missile
Largest missile ever built: the passenger airship Hindenburg or its sister ship Graf Zeppelin II , each 245 m long and a volume of 200,000 cubic meters.
Biggest airplane
The longest and heaviest aircraft ever built is the Antonov An-225 (length 85.30 m, wingspan 88.40 m, maximum take-off weight 600 t).
The largest passenger aircraft is the Airbus A380-800 (length 72.30 m, wingspan 79.80 m, maximum take-off weight approx. 590 t).
The longest passenger aircraft in use is the Boeing 747-8 (picture; length 76.30 m). The not yet flown Boeing 777-9 is another 20 cm longer.
The largest propeller-driven aircraft ever built was the Hughes H-4 (Spruce Goose), which for a long time also had the largest wingspan of all aircraft built (takeoff weight approx. 181 t, wingspan 97.51 m). Its flight ability is doubted, however, since the only flight of the H-4 took place in the area of the lift-giving ground effect .
The largest series aircraft with propeller engines is the Antonov An-22 (Antäus) (maximum take-off weight 250 t, length 57.80 m, wingspan 64.40 m).
Highest altitude without rocket propulsion
The 1956-57 put into service Lockheed U-2 had a service ceiling of 25,900 m.
The altitude record of 26,213 m for jet aircraft (i.e. with air-breathing engines) in level flight is held by a Lockheed SR-71 .
The absolute altitude record was set by a MiG-25 with 37,650 m, but in parabolic flight .
Flight duration: 4 days 21 hours 52 minutes (117h 52m)
(In 2006 Steve Fossett flew around the earth in 76 hours and 45 minutes with the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer , using 10,200 liters of kerosene, 83% of the takeoff weight)
Indirectly through solar power (resulting wind systems such as lee waves ) the height of 15,447 m was flown in glider flight. Erected on August 30, 2006 by Steve Fossett (USA) and Einar Enevoldson in a self-made construction called "Perlan", based on a DG-500 two-seater glider .
Highest balloon flight
Since July 31, 1901, the world record of 10,800 m has been held by Arthur Berson and Reinhard Süring . The ascent with the Preussen balloon began at 10:50 a.m. on Tempelhofer Feld near Berlin. At an altitude of 6,000 m, the balloonists began to breathe oxygen through tubes connected to the oxygen bottles they were carrying . Above 10,000 m, both meteorologists passed out after Berson had registered an altitude of 10,500 m and released hydrogen by pulling the valve rope several times. Since the balloon was still rising, it is estimated that the altitude ultimately reached was 10,800 m above sea level. NN. After they woke up, Berson and Süring were able to land the balloon safely after a 7.5 hour journey near Briesen north of Cottbus .
The balloon pilot Alexander Dahl reached the greatest height in the open basket in the history of balloon flight on August 31, 1933 in the special high-altitude balloon “Bartsch v. Sigsfeld "with 11,300 m. The scientific management of the expedition was held by PA Galbas, the head of the Essen-Mülheim meteorological station. The third participant was Walter Popp from Essen.
For the first time with a hermetically sealed cabin, the physicist Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer set a height record of 15,785 m on May 27, 1931, starting from Augsburg , on board the FNRS-1, a balloon with a spherical pressure body. On August 18, 1932, Piccard and the Belgian physicist Max Cosyns rose for the second time in a gas balloon, this time in Dübendorf in Switzerland, to an altitude of 16,201 m (air pressure measurement) and 16,940 m (geometric measurement). Piccard's twin brother Jean constructed a balloon with which Settle and Fordney set the altitude record of 18,665 m in November 1933. On October 23, 1934, his wife Jeannette set an unofficial height record for women at 17,550 m, which so far has only been exceeded by space travelers.
In the Manhigh I project , a series of manned balloon ascents at heights of 30 kilometers, which was initiated by the US military from 1955, Captain Joseph Kittinger reached an altitude of approx. 29,500 m on June 2, 1957 and Major David Simons (Manhigh II ) between 19 and 20 August approx. 30,900 m. During the Excelsior project of the US Air Force on the morning of August 16, 1960, Kittinger climbed a helium-filled balloon to a height of 31,332 m, from where he dropped to earth from the open gondola. In a pressure suit, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds until the main parachute opened at a height of around 5,500 m. After another 9½ minutes he landed safely. At this company, Kittinger set four world records, some of which have not yet been exceeded: 1. Highest balloon flight with an open gondola (but in a pressure suit ), 2. Longest free fall (exceeded by Yevgeny Nikolayevich Andrejew on November 1, 1962 with 24,500 m from 25,458 m) 3rd longest parachute jump 4th and highest speed of a person without a special protective cover. Whether he broke the sound barrier with this jump is controversial. More recent posts corroborate Kittinger's 1960 statements by reporting a speed “up to 614 miles per hour” and “approaching the speed of sound” or “almost breaking the sound barrier when he briefly 988 km / h achieved. " From the (undisputed) values of the jump height and the height of fall Kittinger can calculate his theoretical final speed, which is 275 m / s = 990 km / h and thus just below the assumed speed of sound of 1,003 km / h ( at −80 ° C).
The record was held by Malcolm D. Ross and Victor E. Prather, who rose to an altitude of 34,668 m over the Gulf of Mexico in 1961.
On October 14, 2012, the Austrian Felix Baumgartner set a new record for the highest manned balloon flight.
highest jump, 38,969.4 m (31,332 m, August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger);
highest speed achieved in free fall (with stabilizing parachute), 1,357.6 km / h (988 km / h, August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger);
longest free fall without a stabilizing screen (height), 36,402.6 m (24,500 m, November 1, 1962, Evgeni Nikolajewitsch Andrejew );
longest free fall (duration): 4 minutes 20 seconds (Joseph Kittinger set a record of 4 minutes 36 seconds on August 16, 1960, but with a "drogue chute").
On October 24, 2014, the American Alan Eustace jumped from 41,422 meters, breaking at least two records from Felix Baumgartner :
highest manned balloon flight, 41,422 m
highest jump, 41,422 m
Fall distance (with stabilization parachute), 37,623 m
vertical fall speed (with parachute), 1320 km / h
Google manager Eustace's jump took place largely without media hype and found its way into the public only thanks to reporters from the New York Times .
Unmanned balloons
According to the 1991 edition of the Guinness Book, the world record for height for unmanned balloons is held by a Winzen balloon with a volume of 1.35 million cubic meters (for comparison: a sphere with a diameter of 137 m has this volume) at 51,400 m October 1972 in Chico, California, USA.
This is the highest altitude reached by a missile that primarily relies on the medium of air to fly. Only rockets, rocket planes and projectiles can reach greater heights.
seafaring
Highest mast
The Mirabella V had the tallest ship's mast before it was shortened, with a height of 91.44 meters. The transmission mast on board the pirate transmitter ship Ross , which measured 90 meters, was almost as high . The drilling rig Chikyū reaches a height of 130 meters.
Biggest ship
The work ship Pioneering Spirit is the largest ship ever built in terms of gross tonnage and width. Length: 382.00 meters, width: 123.75 meters, draft: 27.0 meters (403,342 GT).
The year Viking oil tanker is the longest ship ever built after being extended by 81 meters in 1980. The largest tanker ever built in one piece, however, is the Pierre Guillaumat , length: 414.23 meters, width: 63.05 meters, draft: 28.60 meters.
In 1953 the Swiss scientist, physicist and inventor Auguste Piccard dived for the first time with a bathyscaphe , the Trieste , a further development of the predecessor FNRS-2 , off the Mediterranean island of Ponza to a depth of 3,150 m. The French bathyscaphe FNRS-3 set another depth record in February 1954 and reached 4,050 m near Dakar , which the Trieste exceeded in 1959 in the Pacific. On January 23, 1960, the Trieste finally dived to the record depth of 10,740 or 10,916 m (depending on the measurement), which is still valid today, at a point at the bottom of the Mariana Trench . Here the deep-sea submersible withstood a pressure of 1,170 bar, which is 1,155 times the mean air pressure at sea level.
Record low for series-produced watches
The depth record for mass-produced mechanical watches without complications is held by the diver's watch Rolex Deep Sea at 3,900 meters, while Charmex's 20,000 feet of mass-produced mechanical chronographs has reached a depth of over 6,000 meters since 2009.
The Saturn V completed 13 successful space launches between November 9, 1967 and May 14, 1973. The take-off thrust was 33,578 kN (3,424 t), the height 110.6 m , the take-off weight 2,934.8 t , the max. Payload 133 t
The N1 , which was developed as part of the Soviet manned lunar program , made four unsuccessful unmanned take-off attempts between February 21, 1969 and November 23, 1972 (longest flight time around 107 seconds). The total thrust was 43,300 kN , the height 105.3 m, the takeoff weight 2,750 t, the payload (LEO): 70 t (N1), later 95 t planned (N1F)
The Energija is a Soviet launcher designed to put the Buran space shuttle into orbit. The rocket was successfully deployed unmanned twice between May 15, 1987 and November 15, 1988. In the second, the Buran space shuttle was launched. Return and landing were controlled automatically. The starting thrust was 35,000 kN, the height 58.8 m, the max. Payload in a near-earth orbit approx. 96 t and approx. 22 t in a geostationary transfer orbit. With the Vulkan, a heavy variant of the Energija was planned, which should be able to carry around 175 t payload into a low earth orbit. The program was discontinued due to budget constraints.
The Falcon Heavy took off for the first time on February 6, 2018. With a launch thrust of 22,819 kN, 70 m height, up to 1,420 t launch mass and 63.8 t payload capacity, it is the strongest and heaviest rocket in use .
The BFR is the largest and most powerful missile currently under development. Its planned height is 118 m and the take-off thrust is around 62,000 kN. By refueling in orbit, it should be able to carry over 100 t of payload to any destination. A first start is planned for 2021.
Greatest distance to earth
The Voyager 1 space probe is approximately 21 billion km from Earth (March 2017). (Image: Artist's impression of Voyager in space).
science
Largest optical telescope
The Large Binocular Telescope ("large binocular telescope") on the 3267 m high Mount Graham in Arizona has a mirror diameter of 2 × 8.4 meters. The combined light collecting surface of the two mirrors corresponds to that of a mirror with a diameter of 11.8 meters.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias on La Palma has the largest mirror. This mirror has a diameter of 10.4 meters.
Largest particle accelerator
The Large Hadron Collider is a ring length of 27 km, the largest particle accelerator in the world. He also holds the records for the highest particle energy achieved and the highest collision rate on a storage ring .
Largest anechoic room in the world
The Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base is the largest anechoic room in the world with a volume of 130,823 m³.
In 2007 2 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited reached a height of 6,646 meters above sea level on the Ojos del Salado volcano .
On April 21, 2007 the Chilean Gonzalo Bravo drove on the volcano Ojos del Salado with his modified Suzuki Samurai to an altitude of 6,688 meters.
At the end of December 2019, the expedition organizer Matthias Jescke reached Extrem Events - Matthias Jeschke e. K. with 2 Unimogs U 5023 volcano Ojos del Salado a height of 6,694 meters above sea level and together with many partners - like MikeBosetti GmbH & Co. KG - set a world record for the highest reached height for wheeled vehicles.
Fastest car in the world
The fastest car in the world is the ThrustSSC rocket car , which broke the sound barrier on October 15, 1997 at 1,227.985 km / h. See also land speed record
Fastest wheel drive car
The fastest wheel-driven car is the Turbinator , which reached a speed of 737.794 km / h on October 18, 2001 with the help of a gas turbine drive.
Fastest car powered by a supercharged internal combustion engine
The fastest of a combustion engine with forced induction driven car is the Burklands' 411 Streamliner , he reached on 26 September 2008 a speed of 669.319 km / h.
Fastest car powered by an internal combustion engine without a supercharger
The fastest car powered by an internal combustion engine without a supercharger is the "Spirit of Rett" streamliner . On September 21, 2010 it reached a speed of 666.776 km / h.
Fastest diesel powered car
The fastest car powered by two diesel engines is the JCB Dieselmax , which reached a speed of 563.418 km / h on August 23, 2006.
Fastest electric powered car
The fastest car powered by an electric motor is the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2.5 streamliner , which reached a speed of 495.140 km / h on August 24, 2010.
Fastest hydrogen-powered car
The fastest hydrogen- powered car using a fuel cell is the Buckeye Bullet 2.0 streamliner , which reached a speed of 487.433 km / h on September 25, 2009.
Fastest steam powered car
The fastest steam- powered car is the Inspiration streamliner , which reached a speed of 225.055 km / h on August 25, 2009.
Fastest mass-produced street-legal sports car
The Koenigsegg Agera RS reached a speed of 447.24 km / h (277.9 mph) on a public road on November 4, 2017 in Pahrump (Nevada, USA). The record was set by Niklas Lilja. The car also holds the 0-400-0 speed record with a time of 36.44 seconds.
Heaviest truck in the world
The world's heaviest mass-produced truck is the BelAZ-75710 with a gross vehicle weight of 810 t (length: 20.6 m; width: 9.75 m; height: 8.17 m).
The Great Western Railway in England had the largest realized track gauge of a railway with 2,134 mm . The lines were converted to standard gauge by 1892. Today, the railways in Argentina and India have the largest gauge at 1,676 mm.
Opened on November 28, 1896, the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was a railway line in Brighton that ran through the sea . The official name of the only wagon was Pioneer, but many called the train Daddy Long Legs (" harvestman " - arachnid with long legs). The total of four four-wheeled bogies of the approx. 45 t heavy vehicle (a boat-like structure on approx. 7 m high stilts) ran on two parallel tracks, each with a gauge of 828 mm . The distance between the respective outer rails resulted in a total track width of 5,486 mm. After the city council's decision in 1901 to build a beach protection barrier, it was finally closed.
The widest projected track of a railroad had with initially planned 4,000 mm (but later on 3,000 mm reduced), planned by the German National Railroad and the German rail technology industry from May 1942 until the last days of the war in 1945 broad gauge railway . In addition to the large transcontinental transport capacities, the hoped-for effect was the psychological effect of the new means of transport, which, in conjunction with the monumental buildings , was supposed to demonstrate the strength of the regime at that time. A broad-gauge railway is generally any railway on a broad-gauge track, but in a narrower sense above all the 3000-mm-gauge railway designed on Adolf Hitler's personal order. In 1942, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin submitted plans for four-story, so-called rail zeppelins with 6 and 9 m gauge.
The highest railway bridge in the world is the Chenab Bridge (330 m) in India. The highest German railway bridge is the Müngstener Brücke (107 m).
In contrast to traffic technology , which deals with long-range transport, conveyor technology deals with the movement of goods in defined operational areas such as ports, airports, in mining or in industrial operations, such as in production and in the warehouse.
The gantry cranes Samson and Goliath, built by Krupp in 1974 and 1969 in Queen's Island, Belfast, are located in the shipyard of Harland & Wolff , the builders of RMS Titanic . Each of the two cranes has a span of 140 m and can lift loads of up to 840 tons to a height of 70 m.
The dry dock under the cranes is the largest in the world and measures 556 m × 93 m.
Inclined ship lifts transport the ships over an inclined plane, with a trough running on rails, the load of which is balanced by counterweights.
In addition to the so-called dry conveyance , in which the ship is pulled out of the water by means of a trolley, also called a ship's railway.
The Oberland Canal in East Prussia is still regularly used by excursion boats, and the sloping plains in particular are a tourist attraction.
The Big Chute Marine Railway on the Trent-and-Severn-Waterway in Canada was planned as a normal lock, then fell victim to the austerity measures and the financial tightness of the First World War and was opened as a temporary elevator in 1917 as an inclined lift with dry conveyance.
Krasnoyarsk boat lift on the Yenisei , which has a track width of 9000 mm, or
the almost completed new ship lift on the Yangtze River near the Three Gorges Dam in the People's Republic of China . The trough is 120 m long, 18 m wide and overcomes 150 meters difference in altitude
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The two masts of the Yangtze overhead line crossing in Jiangyin, China, erected in 2003, are the highest overhead line masts in the world with a height of 346.5 meters and even tower over the Eiffel Tower.
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The 95.1 meter high observation tower Top of the World is the tallest transportable amusement ride ever built.
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