Are we bright, or really kinda dim? IFL Science reports that the human brain uses about as much electricity as the average computer monitor:
… Read the rest “Our brains run on 20 watts of power.”Considered as an organ, the brain is admittedly
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book calls it.
The book in question… Read the rest “Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905”
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here.
I can only assume this is an early blacklight bulb… Read the rest “Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917”
As in the building material. MIT News reports on researchers who have gotten 10 times the power out of a reformulated battery that’s made from concrete – that could one day be… Read the rest “Making batteries out of concrete.”
This is the illustration from a full-page ad from the Hughes Aircraft Company in the Jan/Feb 1966 issue of Information Display magazine.
This isn’t selling a product — at least… Read the rest “Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.”
This illustration is from an article in Science Gossip on how to set up your own “X-Ray Outfit.” As the author, James Quick, explains: “The four chief items comprising… Read the rest “Science Art: Apparatus Arranged for Taking a Radiograph, 1894.”
This is from a photographically illustrated advertisement in Hugo Gernsback’s magazine The Electrical Experimenter.
The description of this item is as follows:
… Read the rest “Science Art: The Turney Vario Variable Condenser, 1913.”For extreme measurements
SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover). (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research. It’s a cover… Read the rest “SONG: “Communications” (a penitential Slim Gaillard cover)”
This is an ad from, as Thomas Dolby put it, the Golden Age of wireless. More literally, it’s from the October, 1916, issue of The Electrical Experimenter, a Hugo Gernsback publication,… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Step Multi-Audi-Fone ad, 1916.”
NPR had a piece on the little South American nation that’s leading the way to a less polluted future, getting nearly all of its electricity from well-placed windmills and an economic… Read the rest “Uruguay gets 98% of its power from renewable sources.”
Scientific Frontline looks at a new way to create rechargeable lithium-ion batteries – the power behind electric cars, iPhones, and most of the rest of the 21st century – without… Read the rest “Making a pain-free battery: “Nickel doesn’t have child-labor issues.””
Reuters reports on a hot, hot summer that is pulling more electricity from the Texas state grid than ever before:
… Read the rest “Texas expects record-setting power usage this week.”AccuWeather forecast high temperatures in Houston, the biggest city in
PNAS reports on some unanticipated consequences of solar farming – but things that banks of solar panels that are unexpectedly good, not bad:
… Read the rest “Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.”To generate as much energy as a conventional
This is how you advertise a science book. At least, it was how Hugo Gernsback did in the pages of The Electrical Experimenter in September 1916. Is that figure in the middle Hephaestus or is… Read the rest “Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.”
Reuters reports on Modhera, Gujarat, the first 24/7, all-solar village built in India for ordinary folks to live without a local power plant:
… Read the rest “India has built an all-solar village.”The project in Modhera, financed by the federal
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