They regarded it, Dorothy said, as "something of a joke," with its halting progress and periodic breakdowns, but by the end of the journey they were awed by the engineering feat that the rail line represented: it was the highest ever built in North America.
He explained: "History tells us the 1888 winter carnival ice palace was 137 feet high, the largest and highest ever built.
At times Petit's whimsy is too much, and his language melodramatic and self-conscious ("I offer to myself, for a throne, the highest tower ever built by man; for a ceremonial carpet, the most savagely gigantic city of the Americas; for my dominion, a tray of seas wetting my forehead; while the folds of my wind-sculpted cape surround me with majestically mortal whirls").
It will be the most expensive high school ever built, district officials say.
ATLANTA — The most expensive public high school ever built in Georgia opens Wednesday in an old I.B.M. office building.
Three facilities were built to relieve Belmont: Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts Miguel Contreras Learning Complexx; and the infamous Belmont Learning Complex, now named the Roybal Learning Center, which opened in 2008 as one of the most expensive high schools ever built because of environmental issues, construction delays and other problems.
The Californian search engine is part of a consortium that confirmed its plans to install the new Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) yesterday, the centrepiece of a $400m£245m5m) project that will create the highest capacity system ever built.
Its replacement is the highest energy accelerator ever built, capable of probing an unexplored domain in particle physics.
When finished, the LHC will be the highest energy machine ever built; it is designed to smash protons together to probe for, among other things, a particle called the Higgs boson that could explain why things have mass.
iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple's stunning Retina™ display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime®, which makes video calling a reality.
Mr. Felisa said that among the company's road cars, the F12 was nothing less than "the most high-performance Ferrari ever built".
