Synopsis

A colossal hydraulic press that can stamp out a pickup truck door in mere seconds… rock crushers reducing 8,000 tons of solid granite to dust each hour… immense “chain trenchers” carving a thirty-five foot ditch through unyielding stone… a harvesting combine cutting, threshing, and unloading 3.3 bushels of grain—every second... and the Keck Observatory, the world's largest optical telescope, a magnificent instrument peering into the furthest reaches of space from nearly fourteen thousand feet ab