Science Art: Altitude and azimuth instrument, 1876.
How high? This device will tell you. It’s from The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can read […]
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Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a […]
Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.
Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river […]
Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances […]
Saving the beach with some stick-and-palm-frond engineering.
Reuters reports from Senegal on a new anti-erosion project that uses dirt-cheap, pollution-free materials to defend an island from Atlantic swells that threaten to wash […]
SONG: Octopus Gloves
SONG: “Octopus Gloves” [Download] . (OGG version) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News 13 July 2022, “This octopus-inspired glove helps humans grip slippery objects,” as used […]
Octopus gloves. They grab things better.
Science News reports on gloves that are especially good at picking slippery things up and sticking to ’em thanks to “rapidly switchable” materials inspired by […]
Self-driving, cabless semis are coming to U.S. roads.
TechCrunch rides along with Einride, a Swedish electric drone-trucking startup that’s bringing “self-driving pods” to U.S. public roads this year in partnership with GE Appliances: […]
Science Art: Fig 2.1: Powder Rocket Projectile, 1956.
This is one of the first illustrations in V. I. Feodosiev’s and G. B. Siniarev’s Introduction to Rocketry, an English translation of a Russian text […]
Solar plane can do the job of a satellite without going into space.
CNN is covering the Skydweller, a plane powered by more than 17,000 solar panels, enabling it to stay aloft for month, doing the same work […]
Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.
This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris […]
“Mega-casting” will replace lots of little car parts with one big piece of metal.
Popular Science shares Volvo’s vision for the next generation of automobile manufacture. Not only are they using electric motors, but they’re putting together the vehicles […]
Science Art: Randel’s Improved Combination Press, 1860
From Scientific American, December 1, 1860, an issue that also has a patent by Abraham Lincoln for lifting riverboats over obstacles, and a note on […]
Studying lizard lungs to build replacement human lungs.
Princeton researchers are looking at the fast-growing lungs of ordinary, common lizards called brown anoles to find way to quickly create replacement lungs for humans […]
Science Art: Heart of the Turbine, by Lewis W. Hine, 1930.
A gelatin silver print of a man making a Westinghouse engine. I think this might be an AC generator, but I’m not sure – the […]