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2504 BCE
Great Pyramid
It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. -
475 BCE
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. -
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Aqueduct of Segovia
one of the best-preserved elevated Roman aqueducts. It is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms. -
The first Civil Engineer
The first self-proclaimed civil engineer was John Smeaton, who constructed the Eddystone Lighthouse. -
First KY Civil Engineering Graduate
Henry H. White, first KY Civil Engineering Graduate from Bacon (Georgetown) College in 1840. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. -
Brooklyn Bridge
Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. -
First college to offer an engineering degree
Fall of 1886, “State College” established civil engineering degree. -
First person to receive a civil engineering degree.
John Wesley Gunn of Lexington received first Civil Engineering degree from A & M College (UK) in 1890. -
Empire State Building
It stands 103 stories tall. It is located on Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets in Manhattan. The Empire State Building took only one year and 45 days to build, or more than seven million hours. -
Panama Canal
The American-built waterway across the Isthmus of Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. -
Hoover Dam
originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947, when it was officially renamed Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. -
Golden Gate Bridge
Opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet. -
Interstate Highway
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads -
Channel Tunnel
In a ceremony presided over by England’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age. -
ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component launched into orbit in 1998. -
Taipel 101
Known as the Taipei World Financial Center – is a landmark super tall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004. -
Burj Khalifa
At over 2,625 feet and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa is the highest building in the world. Apart from that, it also holds six other world records. -
Qingdao Haiwan Bridge
Long roadway bridge in eastern China's Shandong province, which is part of the 41.58 km Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project. As of December 2012, Guinness World Records lists the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as the world's longest bridge over water. -
Port Mann Bridge
The widest bridge in the world (until the Bay Bridge's east span recently opened), the bridge east of Vancouver, B.C., which opened in 2012, remains the second-longest bridge in North America. The cable-stay bridge uses an impressive 288 cables to reach a total bridge length of 6,866 feet.
