Gallery: 8 Stunning Industrial Sites, From an Atom Smasher to a Solar Furnace
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The radio anechoic chamber at Denmark’s Technical University. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The radio anechoic chamber at Denmark’s Technical University. *Photos: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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*Above:* The tangled inside of the Marriage Miller flour factory. *Below:* The flour factory's exterior. *Photos: Alastair Philip Wiper* 
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The flour factory's exterior. *Photo Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The Odeillo Solar Furnace, the world's largest, located in the French Pyrenees mountains. *Photos: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in the French Pyrenees. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The Odeillo Solar Furnace, the world's largest, located in the French Pyrenees mountains. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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Construction of the new Copenhagen Metro. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The Antiproton Decelerator Hall at CERN, where antiprotons are slowed down to 10 percent of the speed of light in order to conduct research into antimatter. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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An old shipyard outside of Copenhagen, where the two men behind Copenhagen Suborbitals are trying to build a homemade space rocket. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel at the University of Southampton. *Photos: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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The R.J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel at the University of Southampton. *Photo: Alastair Philip Wiper*
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