My seventh and final wonder is the Aswan High Dam.

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Seven Wonders of the Modern World        R.Ismail 10C

Wonder, amazement, concepts which have occupied the collective thoughts of mankind since our emergence from the primordial soup. Concepts which make our daily lives easier and which have accelerated us into the future. These concepts are the foundations of the seven wonders of the modern world.

I begin with the first wonder, The Channel Tunnel. The tunnel is nearly 50 kilometers in length with about 37.8 kilometers being underwater. The structure consists of three tubes, two of them being rail tunnels and the third tube which lies in between the other two is a service tunnel. The three tubes lie about 40 meters beneath the seabed. From 1987 to 1991, 11 boring machines, which are the world’s largest abrasives,  removed about 7.6 million cubic meters of chalk and gave birth to underwater intercontinental travel.

The second wonder is the Itaipu Dam Power plant. It is one of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plants. Located on the Parana River on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, the colossal power plant has a generating capacity of about 12600 megawatts. To put this into perspective our own Koeberg Power station has a generating capacity of about 1840 megawatts.   An amazing statistic is that the volume of iron and steel utilized in the Dam structure would be enough to build 380 Eiffel towers. This is truly a wonder of the modern world.

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Glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver piercing the New York skyline is the Empire State Building, the third wonder of the modern world. Located in the heart of New York, it is one of the largest and one of the strongest buildings in the world. Its strength was proved when only 2 floors were damaged after a bomber crashed into the 79th floor in 1945. Construction commenced in March of 1930 and was completed 14 months later in May 1931. In total it took 7 million man hours, 1 year and 45 days work for construction to be ...

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