5 Largest Man-Made Machines Ever Created

1. Largest Dump Truck

With its brightly painted guardrails and ladder, the front end looks more like a yacht than a work machine, but the hybrid-diesel Belaz was built for one thing; seriously moving earth. Its two sixteen-cylinder engines get this super duty bad boy going and giving it 13,738 pounds of torque, more than the combined power of seventeen heavy-duty pickup trucks.

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2. Mobile Launcher Platform

The Mobile Launcher Platform or MLP is one of three two-story structures used by NASA to support the Space Shuttle stack during its transportation from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center as well as serve as the vehicle’s launch platform. NASA’s three MLPs were originally constructed for the Apollo Program to launch the Saturn V rockets in the 1960s and 1970s, and have remained in service to this day, with substantial alterations.

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3. Giant Mechanical Spider

London took pride in owning their very own mechanical elephant, but Liverpool decided to one-up them. On a rainy afternoon, a gigantic spider ushered in from Salthouse Dock, to awe, thrill and scare spectators. The giant mechanic spider, named La Princesse trundled down the streets at two miles an hour, eventually climbing the side of the Concourse House, a derelict building on Lime Street.

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4. Bagger 288

Their numbers are staggering: 12,804 tons, 246 feet long, 106 high and 46 wide. Construction took 5 years at a cost of $ 100 million. The Bagger 288 was built for the coal mine in Hambach, Germany. You can dig cubic 76,000 meters daily, the equivalent of a football field 30 meters deep. The coal produced in one day can fill 2,400 rail cars of coal.

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5. The Large Hadron Collider

Another largest machine in the world was created to study the tiniest composition known: the structure of the atomic nucleus. Nuclear accelerators are nothing new. They were first invented in the 1930’s for investigating the many aspects of particle physics. The Hadron Collider is seventeen miles in circumference and is buried 574 feet under the ground, near Geneva, Switzerland.