It’s well-known that due to strong winds, skyscrapers deviate from their axis: the residents of the upper floors can even feel something like seasickness. In order to minimize this effect and make these types of buildings more stable, a special inertial damper is used — it is a huge pendulum that is suspended in a special shaft closer to the top of the building.

The Taiwanese skyscraper, Taipei 101, has the largest damper in the world, which is a huge sphere that weighs 660 tons.