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SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)

16 July 2018 grant 0

SONG: “One of Our Submarines” [Download] (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the […]

De Beers sells synthetic diamonds.

31 May 2018 grant 0

The Guardian reveals that De Beers, the monolithic diamond firm (which has made artificial scarcity its business model for the better part of a century […]

Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975

16 April 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]

Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study

3 April 2018 grant 0

The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right […]

Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.

17 September 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the […]

Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.

4 September 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen It spins, you know. This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West. I found […]

Science Art: Torpille Moderne/Torpille Ancienne from Dreadnought ou submersible by Olivier Guihéneuc, 1916

16 July 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Two torpedoes, modern (as of 1916) and ancient. That’s about the limit of my French. The book is about naval warfare, and […]

Plasma jet engines: Taking us to space without burning fuel

25 May 2017 grant 0

New Scientist is launching our hopes higher than ever with a report on a whole new electric engine that can carry a plane to space: […]

We’ll build skyscrapers out of wood. And do the planet some good….

18 May 2017 grant 0

Nature reveals the new growth of ambitious plans to cool the planet with wooden skyscrapers: Constructed almost entirely from timber in 2014, the 8-storey, 30-metre […]

Science Art: Head Frames, Figs. 3-6, from The Design of Mine Structures, 1912.

2 April 2017 grant 0

Types of head works for mines. These frames helped draw out the rocks that the miners were busy breaking up deep underground. At the time […]

Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.

12 March 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen A train! A big ol’ train! This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book […]

This origami microscope costs less than a dollar – and you can magnify stuff by 2,000 times.

7 February 2017 grant 0

Popular Science shows us how to make a cheap paper microscope that really works: In the Foldscope, invented by Stanford University engineers, creased paper creates […]

Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898

22 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]

This homemade toy saves lives.

11 January 2017 grant 0

Nature shows how one of the simplest toys out there – a loop of string with a spinning bit of paper in the middle – […]

You can now 3D-print a sonic tractor beam.

3 January 2017 grant 0

Science Daily brings us one step closer to a sci-fi tomorrow with researchers publishing open-source directions on making a tractor beam at home: Last year […]

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