Engineers Then Built Different

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Engineers then

What it means

A black-and-white photograph shows a bundled-up man standing beside an extremely elaborate homemade structure in a snowy field, with wires, poles, and a suspended apparatus. The joke is that engineers in the past solved problems with absurdly complicated, improvised constructions, implying that modern engineering is less wild by comparison. EN: A black-and-white photograph shows a bundled-up man standing beside an extremely elaborate homemade structure in a snowy field, with wires, poles, and a suspended apparatus. The joke is that engineers in the past solved problems with absurdly complicated, improvised constructions, implying that modern engineering is less wild by comparison.

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man in winter coat / мужчина в зимнем пальто flat cap / кепка snowy field / заснеженное поле homemade contraption / самодельная конструкция metal poles / металлические шесты wires / провода suspended apparatus / подвешенный аппарат wooden plank / деревянная доска bare tree / голое дерево black-and-white photograph / чёрно-белая фотография