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Move ‘em out

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

 

 
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We’ve all come across things that just don’t make sense, even though they work. Engineers do, too. We’ll look at one, today on Engineering Works!
If you’ve been to a big concert, or a ball game, with a big crowd of other people, you know what happens when it’s time to leave. No [...]

Transistors rule

Monday, November 9th, 2009

 

 
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Transistors, the things that make your iPod and computer possible. We’ll look back in history. Today, on Engineering Works!
If you look around at all the things we have that use transistors, it seems like we always must have had them. We haven’t, of course. An engineer working at Bell Laboratories invented the transistor [...]

Grow your own … electricity

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

 
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Engineers in Germany are getting ready to turn the electric power industry inside out. We’ll see how, today on Engineering Works!
Everybody knows how we get electricity. Big generating plants powered by coal or nuclear energy or water. It sizzles along power lines to where we use it to light our houses and power [...]

Sucking up the storm

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

 
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The hammering that Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans isn’t news anymore. Engineers are building something they say will keep it that way. It’s a pump. A big pump. Today, on Engineering Works!
People who live in New Orleans found out the hard way that the city can be a bad place to be when a [...]

Robo Soldiers

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

 
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Sometimes engineering doesn’t work out the way we planned. We’ll take a look, today on Engineering Works!
Top brass in the German army are raving about some new equipment that they say will give their soldiers a big advantage on the battlefield. The soldiers who use the new gear aren’t so enthusiastic. They [...]

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