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Abandoned Engineering: An American Exodus (Monday 14 November 2022 Yesterday)

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November 13, 2022

An American Exodus: Doel, a ghost town in Belgium, stands in the shadow of its destroyer. Chacaltaya Ski Resort in Bolivia is a high-altitude retreat that was once a world-class sporting resort but has been robbed of its lifeblood by a global threat. Warner & Swasey, a groundbreaking scientific building in Cleveland, has been rendered obsolete by light pollution.

Airdate: Monday 14 November 2022 at 20:00 on Yesterday

Season 10 Episode 11

As the saying goes – they probably seemed like good ideas at the time. The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them, and make money for those that ordered, designed and built them. They were the stuff of dreams. Often enormous engineering problems had to be resolved, obstacles overcome and new innovations employed just to get them built in the first place. Alas, a great number of these remarkable structures have now been abandoned, cast aside like enormous expensive out-of-date toys, never to be used in the ways for which they were intended. Each and every one of these extraordinary places is home to a wealth of powerful and compelling stories. We’ll see and hear about some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has eve…

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