The research field of high energy physics is fascinating and fruitful. It is also slow, delicate and painful. Behind any scientific discovery there is a quite complex clockwork, responsible of its existence. This clockwork system is composed of exceptionally hard working individuals and extremely efficient machines: from theorists to technicians; from high vacuum systems to distributed computing software. This complex system was once put to work and in the span of some decades it shifted completely our vision about the natural world, pointing out amazing facts both from the subatomic world...