The UK has powered up an unusual fusion reactor.
Science magazine takes us inside the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, an experimental fusion reactor which has been switched on after a 7-year build […]
Science magazine takes us inside the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, an experimental fusion reactor which has been switched on after a 7-year build […]
Click to embiggen This is a machine for cutting through rock in a swamp. Or really, in a very broad, very shallow river – which […]
Click to embiggen A dynamometer, illustrated by (or for) the United States Sanitary Commission in 1865. A dynamometer measures power output. For an engine, it […]
This is something I first assumed was a very early typewriter or printing press, from the Bavarian State Library’s copy of Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum […]
Click to embiggen slightly A device from the early 20th century to turn sound waves into drawings – creating some of the first waveform illustrations. […]
Click to embiggen No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk […]
Click to embiggen From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the […]
Click to embiggen This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated […]
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the […]
Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]
A horological device called a “verge escapement” (on the bottom) with a balance wheel (on the top) from a pocketwatch. An “escapement” is the thing […]
Inhabitat talks up a pretty cool design project that’s taking shape off Copenhagen, where the government has announced plans to build Holmene, a complex of […]
MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume: “It’s a way of […]
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
Not the usual science-mag fare, but yesterday USA Today had a story that’s sort of about business and sort of about unintended consequences of cutting-edge […]
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