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 |
Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V |
One hell of a beautiful generator |
Boeing wing stress testing |
4,500 horsepower boring machine ‘Heidi’ breaks through at the final section of Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world’s longest rail tunnel |
Peacekeeper ICBM inertial guidance module, 1986 |
The top of the W-16 block from a Bugatti Veyro |
Dark matter liquid xenon detector |
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 |
Siemens HVDC transformer used to transport of electrical energy between Australia and Tasmania |
Largcale excavator at a lignite open pit mine |
A rotary snowplow locomotive at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis |
Inside a hydroelectric turbine |
Nuclear Steam Turbine |
KRAZ truck with a MIG-15 turbojet engine used to clean and blow-dry the runway in winter. Domodedovo airport, Moscow, Russia |
2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S Flat-Six |
Business end of an Underground Racing twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo |
TEREX RH400 |
Propellers of The Titanic c. 1912 |
A brand new HD750, GE CT Scanner |
Taisun, the world’s strongest crane, preparing to lower an oil platform onto its pontoons, Yantai, China |
JET Project Tokamak Fusion Reactor |
Higgs Boson Particle Detector |
A naked Porsche Carrera GT |
Lufthansa 747-800. GEnx Engines |
Large Hadron Collider |
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