FERRARI WORLD ABU DHABI

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is a mostly indoors amusement park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Ferrari World is covered by a gigantic free-formed roof with a surface area of approximately 2,000,000 square feet. The Ferrari World roof would cover the Vatican City in Rome. If the Ferrari World building was stood on its end it would be tallest man-made structure in the world at over 300 stories. The Ferrari shield logo on the roof measures 213 feet in length and covers an area of 32,000 square feet. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi has the record for the largest space frame structure ever built.

FERRARI WORLD ABU DHABI

HUNTS POINT COOPERATIVE MARKET

The Hunts Point Cooperative Market Inc. is a cooperative owned by its member stockholders. The company operates and maintains a facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx for its member shareholders and other tenants, all of which are primarily involved in the process and distribution of meat and meat products in the tri-state area. The facility is the largest of its kind in the world and is the major distribution hub for the New York City metro area.   ·         Approximately 2400 employees work in the Hunts Point Coop Market ·         The market was originally built in 1972 as a 40-acre facility with 6 buildings but now is over 60 acres with 7 buildings ·         The Coop consists of 52 companies that process and distribute meat and meat products in just under one million square feet.

HUNTS POINT COOPERATIVE 2008

RUBICON POINT LIGHT

The Rubicon Point Light is a small lighthouse on Lake Tahoe in California. It has not been operational since the 1920s or 1930s. The lighthouse at Rubicon Point has the highest elevation of any American lighthouse. It stands 6,300 feet above sea level at a point where it could be seen from most places around the lake.

RUBICON POINT LIGHT
By Vards Uzvards from San Francisco, CA - Lake Tahoe (p8312148), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10408202

THE JAMNAGAR OIL REFINERY

 

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world.  The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415 acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (11.7 sq mi) of land. If all the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south.

THE JAMNAGAR REFINERY AT NIGHT

ARLINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA AND TURNBERRY TOWER

 

Arlington County is a county in the state of Virginia. The county is in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C.  In 2020, the county's population was estimated at 238,643, making Arlington County the sixth-largest county in Virginia by population and the largest unincorporated community in the United States.  The Turnberry Tower, located in the Rosslyn neighborhood, is a 26-story high-rise, and is the tallest condominium building in the Washington D.C. Metro.

TURNBERRY TOWER

MARION STEAM SHOVEL AKA THE LE ROY STEAM SHOVEL

 

The Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic Model 91 steam shovel manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Marion, Ohio. It is located on Gulf Road in the Town of Le Roy, New York.  it is believed to be the largest intact steam shovel remaining in the world, and may have been used in the excavation of the Panama Canal.  A model 91 steam shovel set what was then a world record in 1912 when it dug 5,554 cubic yards (4,246 m3) of earth from a pit at the site of Gatun Dam.  The Model 91 required eight workers to operate. Four worked in the main section. The operator sat in the front booth and used levers to move the hoist and lift and lower the bucket. When it was time to move the shovel, he took care of that as well. A cranes man, who sat on the left-hand side of the boom, controlled the crowd engine, which allowed him to set the depth of the cut and release the bucket's contents when it was full by tugging on a wire rope attached to it. In the rear was an engineer who tended the boiler and a fireman who shoveled the coal.  Outside the shovel a crew of four took up and laid the track along which its flanged wheels moved. They also set up the jackscrews necessary to stabilize the shovel in front of the rock face it was digging and dismantled them when it was time to move.

MARION MODEL 91 STEAM SHOVEL

KAFFEKLUBBEN ISLAND (COFFEE CLUB ISLAND)

Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island is an uninhabited island lying off the northern tip of Greenland. It contains the northernmost undisputed point of land on Earth.  Kaffeklubben Island was first visited in 1921 by Danish explorer Lauge Koch and was named after the coffee club in Copenhagen’s Museum of Mineralogy.