This is a machine for cutting through rock in a swamp. Or really, in a very broad, very shallow river – which is what the Everglades really is. The rock in question would… Read the rest “Science Art: Close-up view of a rock cutter in the Everglades Drainage District, c. 1920”
A dynamometer, illustrated by (or for) the United States Sanitary Commission in 1865.
A dynamometer measures power output. For an engine, it can measure things like torque… Read the rest “Science Art: Dynamometer, 3 Feb 1865”
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 figuris et fictitys… Read the rest “Science Art: Mechanische Maschinen und Automaten 49, from Bellicorum instrumentorum liber cum …, 1420-1430”
A device from the early 20th century to turn sound waves into drawings – creating some of the first waveform illustrations. Those are something anyone … Read the rest “Science Art: H.G. Dorsey: Device for Graphically Reproducing Sound Waves, 1912”
No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk of metal go really, really fast through the air. … Read the rest “Science Art: Photograph taken from a high-speed video camera during a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun (EMRG)…, 2008.”
From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the British Library Photostream.
The Bessemer… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-Cooling of the Converter, 1891”
This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated plasma to generate more power than you put into… Read the rest “Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007”
A machine that converts heat into motion – an amazing feat – from the book New Conceptions in Science by Carl Snyder, found in the Wellcome Collection. In this case, the steam… Read the rest “Science Art: Hero’s Steam Turbine, 1903”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
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 that makes… Read the rest “Science Art: Verge Watch Escapement, from The Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary, Vol. 2, 1820.”
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 nine islands that will… Read the rest “Denmark to build energy-producing islands (that you can live on).”
MIT researchers have devised a technique to create a solid, 3D structure and then reduce it to one-thousandth its original volume:
… Read the rest “MIT shrinks objects to the nano-scale.”“It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into
This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this was how we put things (and, eventually, people)… Read the rest “Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.”
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 technology in the kitchen…… Read the rest “Meat by law, not by lab.”
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June song. … Read the rest “SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)”
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