engineering
Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.
This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full of mechanisms with scoops… Read the rest “Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.”
Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.
From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org.
The book seems to be part of an 1850 re-printing… Read the rest “Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.”
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain… Read the rest “Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.”
Fusion attracts cash.
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:
… Read the rest “Fusion attracts cash.”…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered
Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.
The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:
… Read the rest “Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.”Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell
Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.
Scientific American lauds the state long linked with oil money for breaking wind power production records:
… Read the rest “Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.”The Lone Star State hit “peak wind” at 8:48 p.m. on March 26, when the state’s wind
SONG: Something Missing
SONG: “Something Missing.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Man prefers $50 3-D printed hand to $42,000… Read the rest “SONG: Something Missing”
A $50 home-printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic.
Washington Post explores the friendship between Jeremy Simon, a 3D-printer “tinkerer” and Jose Delgado, a 53-year-old man who was born without a hand… and who prefers… Read the rest “A $50 home-printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic.”
The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.
Scientific American paints a peculiar picture of the Big Apple’s future, with the hustle and bustle taking place behind a series of levees, walls and other barriers to keep the ocean… Read the rest “The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.”
Types of Trusses, from FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, 1940.
Ways to get that bridge finished, as described in FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, Communications, Construction, and Utilities (September 9, 1940)
Fancy car for the U.S. Army to be building… Read the rest “Types of Trusses, from FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, 1940.”
Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice.
There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Science Art: Section and Elevation of Compound Oil Engine, Showing Construction.
Thus do we master the physical world.
From Mechanical Engineering, a journal published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1919.
How Forbidden City was built: ice machine!
Not the moving parts kind, but the wedge/screw/lever kind. Want to move giant blocks of stone a few miles, but the locomotive and crane haven’t been invented yet? Nature‘s … Read the rest “How Forbidden City was built: ice machine!”
Limbs printed to order.
I’ve seen this in a few different venues, but Laughing Squid brings the best of it together. A dad, frustrated at the thought of buying his son a prosthetic hand for tens of thousands… Read the rest “Limbs printed to order.”