Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene: Protons’ ability to travel […]
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Elon Musk designs X-Wing rockets & spaceport drones.
Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a […]
Science Art: Submarine Reactor, by Webber, 2007.
How the submarine goes. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.
Click to embiggen This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full […]
Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.
Click to embiggen From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org. The book seems to […]
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
Fusion attracts cash.
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 […]
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: Last week, for the first time in memory, the […]
Lone Star? Windmill! Green energy booms in Texas.
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 […]
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 prosthetic”, Washington […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.