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Bridges

Building a Bridge - This Nova presentation includes a section on building and      links to sites about bridge construction.
 Pictures from Regional Bridge Building Contest
 Structure of Bridges - types of bridges
 Bridges of the U.S.
 Bridgepros This site is dedicated to history, engineering and construction of bridges
Maryland's Virtual High School - Bridge building including models and construction
Physics Bridge Building Contest - pictures
Building Bridges - links to sites on bridge building
Bridge Statistics - lengths of bridges
The Geometry of Bridge Construction
Building a Bridge - this site from Nova accompanies their video and chronicles the building of the Clark bridge over the Mississippi

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Catapults

Trebuchet - working model in castle in Wales
Roman Catapult
Medieval Siege - this PBS site examines medieval warfare and includes a section building a trebuchet

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Robotics

NASA Space Telerobotics – at this site you will find everything you need to know about NASA’s program for creating  remote mobility and manipulation, by merging robotics and tele-operations and creating new tele-robotics technologies.  Includes major projects, images, robot tools
 WCSAR – this site shows how  industry is working to create new commercial markets in space, with a focus on advanced closed controlled environment system
 Real Robots on the Web
 the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robotics Section -  focused on planetary rovers and fundamental robotic technology
 Field Robotics Technology –  from Carnegie Mellon University;  focused on lunar rover technology and applications
 Aerospace Robotics Lab – from Stamford University focused on multiple interacting intelligent robots
 Pioneer Robots from ActiMedia – Robots for Remote Handling, Surveillance, Programming or Autonomous Control
 Honeybee Robotics – automation equipment
 Irobot – visit their R&D site for the latest designs
Robot Store – hundreds of robots

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