Archive for July, 2004

Pop culture

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Engineers developed the pull tabs on cans of fizzy drinks.

Radar!

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

Radar has been around since the 1930s, and engineers are working to make it better and smaller.

Big Things!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

The Great Wall of China is the biggest thing human engineers have ever built.

Tour de WOW!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

Behind a Tour de France win is strength, training, guts … and more than $1 million worth of engineering research and technology.

Food irradiation

Friday, July 30th, 2004

Food engineers rid all kinds of food of unpleasant bacteria like salmonella and E-coli that can make us sick.