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Installation of the 408-foot, 758-ton spire was completed after pieces of it had been transported to the roof of the building last week.
WSJ: Spire permanently installed on WTC tower
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Installation of the final two sections of the 408-foot, 758-ton spire was completed after pieces of it had been transported to the roof of the building last week.
WSJ: Spire permanently installed on WTC tower
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The eight-foot tall, one-ton bronze statue was created by sculptor Clete Shields.
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Another competitor, Oshkosh Trucks, has entered TerraMax, an 11-foot-tall, 12-ton robotic truck roughly the size of an 18-wheeler's cab.
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Each of the 65-foot-tall, 640-ton generators -- built by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- are packed with thousands of narrow tubes that carry hot, pressurized water from the reactors.
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And the event's largest competitor, an 11-foot-tall, 12-ton robotic truck built by Oshkosh Trucks, called "Terramax, " was pulled from the race after it screeched to a halt just inches from plowing into a concrete pillar.
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We're not reserving our ticket on the airborne hotel just yet, but if we did, we'd be joining another 179 passengers on the 20-ton, 310 foot long craft.
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Exhibits include an eight-foot-long rotor, half of a hundred-and-fifty-ton truck, and a pump of Brobdingnagian proportions.
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Some pieces serve as sturdy reminders of the 882-foot-long liner's "unsinkable" billing, such as a 17-ton piece of the hull that still contains thick rivets and porthole views into what would have been a pair of third-class cabins.
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