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What is beautiful about a machine? Normally nothing. Machines are made for functionality, efficiency. And yet, sometimes, out of order and functionality also comes a beauty, out of pattern comes design. And after looking at these photos I must confess - some machines are really fun to look at. |
| Lexus LFA 8-Speed Transmission |
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| Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V |
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| One hell of a beautiful generator |
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| Boeing wing stress testing |
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| 4,500 horsepower boring machine ‘Heidi’ breaks through at the final section of Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world’s longest rail tunnel |
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| Peacekeeper ICBM inertial guidance module, 1986 |
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| The top of the W-16 block from a Bugatti Veyro |
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| Dark matter liquid xenon detector |
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| Cutterhead of the world’s largest-diameter tunnel boring machine, which will dig the State Route 99 tunnel beneath downtown Seattle beginning in summer 2013 |
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| Siemens HVDC transformer used to transport of electrical energy between Australia and Tasmania |
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| Largcale excavator at a lignite open pit mine |
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| A rotary snowplow locomotive at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis |
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| Inside a hydroelectric turbine |
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| Nuclear Steam Turbine |
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| KRAZ truck with a MIG-15 turbojet engine used to clean and blow-dry the runway in winter. Domodedovo airport, Moscow, Russia |
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| 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S Flat-Six |
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| Business end of an Underground Racing twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo |
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| TEREX RH400 |
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| Propellers of The Titanic c. 1912 |
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| A brand new HD750, GE CT Scanner |
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| Taisun, the world’s strongest crane, preparing to lower an oil platform onto its pontoons, Yantai, China |
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| JET Project Tokamak Fusion Reactor |
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| Higgs Boson Particle Detector |
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| A naked Porsche Carrera GT |
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| Lufthansa 747-800. GEnx Engines |
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| Large Hadron Collider |
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