A big, useful boat, from Industrial America: Manufacturers and Inventors of the United States, 1876.
Articles tagged with: engineering
Written By: grant on February 22, 2015
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Written By: grant on February 4, 2015
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That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles with no one’s hands on the steering wheel — or any steering wheel at all.
The £8-million (US$12-million) project, part of a larger study of […]
Written By: grant on December 5, 2014
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The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff:
Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United States is devoted to [air conditioning]. If an idea dreamed up by Aaswath Raman of Stanford University and his colleagues comes to fruition, that may change. Dr Raman has […]
Written By: grant on December 3, 2014
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Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene:
Protons’ ability to travel through graphene suggests that the material could be used as a membrane to sieve hydrogen from air, and to help extract energy from that hydrogen in a fuel cell, says […]
Written By: grant on November 25, 2014
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Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a Star Wars-like configuration). if I had a billion dollars, I’d be doing this stuff too:
The SpaceX chief unveiled the new Falcon 9R rocket design, which includes four guiding […]
Written By: grant on November 2, 2014
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Written By: grant on August 17, 2014
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This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full of mechanisms with scoops and gears and vats and water. It’s part of the Max Planck Digital Library collection but I found it on The Public Domain Review.
Written By: grant on August 3, 2014
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From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org.
The book seems to be part of an 1850 re-printing of Thomas Tredgold’s 1827 masterwork… (deep breath)… The steam engine : comprising an account of its invention and progressive improvement; with an investigation […]
Written By: grant on July 27, 2014
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Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain Review‘s collection of prints of Western inventors, artists and scholars produced by the Japanese Department of Education.
In part, to demonstrate […]
