Quiz: What Do You Know About the Big Surf Water Park?
Quiz: What Do You Know About the Big Surf Water Park?
How do you make surfable waves in the middle of Arizona? Some enterprising engineers found a way.
ASME designates all sorts of engineering landmarks: Steam engines, oil wells, even the Apollo lunar lander. (There are 276 landmarks in all.) But some landmarks are just fun. Case in point, Big Surf water park in Tempe, Arizona, was designated a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 2013. Take this quiz to see if you know what makes this water park so noteworthy.
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