This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”
Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:
… Read the rest “Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.”Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the toilet:
… Read the rest “Bill Gates to build a better toilet.”A charitable foundation founded
I can’t outdo the BBC’s headline on this story about a beautiful application for a strange, new material:
… Read the rest “Spider web glass protects birds on the Holy Island”A lookout tower at Lindisfarne has installed it to protect the hundreds
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall:
… Read the rest “Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.”Designed by Swiss firm, RAAFA,
About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only Wills did it with engineering… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.”
Nature voyages to the Island of Dr. Moreau… or at least in the same region… to speak with a scientist who enthusiastically made a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart… Read the rest “They built a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart.”
Scientific American takes a page from the Acme corporation and introduces the world’s first battery in an aerosol can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on battery turns *anything* into a power source.”The paint-on battery, like all lithium ion batteries, consists
Science magazine shores up our infrastructure with a report on how a kid’s toy can save our streets:
… Read the rest “Silly putty pothole repair”…[U]ndergraduates at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland…
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk:
… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical University
This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of Engineering Wonders of the World, this was ripping… Read the rest “Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909”
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member:
… Read the rest ““The first human-humanoid handshake in space.””On Wednesday,
This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty.
It also put out fires, nobly, before the turn of the last century.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.”
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual… Read the rest “Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center”
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
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