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Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.

17 August 2014 grant 0

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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.

3 August 2014 grant 0


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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.

27 July 2014 grant 0

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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.

25 July 2014 grant 0

Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:

…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered

… Read the rest “Fusion attracts cash.”

Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.

9 July 2014 grant 0

The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race:

Last week, for the first time in memory, the wholesale price of electricity in Queensland fell

… Read the rest “Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.”

Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.

27 June 2014 grant 0

Scientific American lauds the state long linked with oil money for breaking wind power production records:

The Lone Star State hit “peak wind” at 8:48 p.m. on March 26, when the state’s wind

… Read the rest “Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.”

SONG: Something Missing

23 May 2014 grant 0

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.

8 May 2014 grant 1

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.

6 May 2014 grant 0

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.

4 May 2014 grant 0

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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

20 January 2014 grant 0

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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.

17 November 2013 grant 0

Section and Elevation of Compound Oil Engine

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!

9 November 2013 grant 0

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.

4 November 2013 grant 0

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.”

Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!

29 October 2013 grant 0

Gigaom takes the two great tastes of home manufacturing and carbon crystalline structures and makes them taste great together with a 3D printer that creates objects out of graphene:

Mining

… Read the rest “Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!”

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