Archive for September, 2008

Concussion

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

 

 
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Put on your coat and come along. We’re going to watch some football. Today on Engineering Works!
Everybody catches their breath and winces when a linebacker puts a big hit on the ball carrier. Sometimes you can feel it all the way up in the stands.
It’s exciting, but some of those big hits can knock [...]

burgers on the … tailpipe?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

 

 
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Most engineering is serious stuff. Some isn’t. We’re going to take a look at some of the not-so-serious stuff, today on Engineering Works! Would you like fries with that?
Think Saturday evenings in the summer. Think burgers on the barbecue pit. Think what hard work it is to grill those burgers. Okay, maybe you don’t [...]

thermos bottle

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

 

 
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They say that some people run both hot and cold. Here’s an invention engineered to do that – on purpose — the thermos bottle. Today on Engineering Works.
It keeps the milk cold in your kid’s Spiderman lunch box and a construction worker’s coffee hot ‘til break time. It’s the thermos bottle – an insulated container [...]

Leveraging engineering

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

 

 
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Most of the time when we think about engineers, we think about the nifty things they’re designing and building, now. But a lot of what they do now started a long time ago. We’ll take a look back, today on Engineering Works!
The engineers we know design and build new fuel-efficient cars, ultra-fast computers, tall buildings. [...]

Pneumatic tubes

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

 

 
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Everything’s going down the tubes, today on Engineering Works!
Sometimes the niftiest gadgets are nothing new. If you use the drive-up window at your bank, you know about one of them. The contraption that slurps up your check and gives you back money. It’s a pneumatic tube, and it’s been around since the Victorian [...]