Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Bridge

Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Bridge has vehicle lanes on top and trains running on the covered deck below.

3rd World Largest Cantilever Bridge, Calcutta

3rd World Largest Cantilever Bridge, Calcutta by Brajeshwar.
Calcutta boasts the third largest cantilever bridge in the world. Its real importance, however, lies in the fact that it serves as Calcutta's gateway to the wese, being the city's only bridge spanning the Hooghly. Taking 7 years to build, it cost $10,000,000. It towers 310 feet as the city's highest structure, is 2,150 feet long with a center span of 1,500 feet. It was completed in 1942, opened in February, 1943.

WORLD'S BIGGEST PASSENGER-SHIP

MS Freedom of the Seas……4300 passenger Capacity Inside

WORLD'S BIGGEST PLANE…………… AIRBUS

Airbus A380………..555 Passenger s

WORLD'S BIGGEST BUS

WORLD'S BIGGEST STADIUM……… .BRAZIL

MARACANA STADIUM………… RIO D.J…………BRAZIL ……………CAPACITY…199,000


WORLD'S HIGHEST STATUE…………….BRAZIL

CHRIST THE REDEEMER STATUE…..RIO.D.J………BRAZIL

MOST COMPLEX INTER-CHANGE………TEXAS

Interstate 10 Highways Interchange…… Houston , Texas .

WORLD'S BIGGEST EXCAVATOR

Built by KRUPP of Germany………….45,500 tons……95 meters high……215 meters long

WORLD'S LARGEST MOSQUE……………… PAKISTAN


Shah Feisal mosque….. Islamabad ……Pakistan

Inside hall capacity ….35, 000 outside overflow capacity…… 150,000