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Engineering Facts
Alloys
Water is a clear colorless liquid. So is methanol. If one were to take a quantity of methanol and pour it into some…
Big Boom
They sound like thunder, but they're not. They're sonic booms, concentrated blasts of sound waves created as vehicles…
Leaning Wonder of Engineering
Most everyone is familiar with the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's known not so much for its engineering, as for the…
How Can A Bullet-proof Vest Stop A Bullet?
Here's an experiment: take the small coil springs from a dozen or so retractable pens and roll them together in a heap…
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- X-Ray Astronomy vs. Medical X-Rays
- A New Twist on Fiber Optics
- Bicycle Chain for Fleas
- Cool Fuel Cells
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Drip, Drip Water Clocks
- Fiber Optics
- GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Hollywood To The Rescue
- How Can A Bullet-proof Vest Stop A Bullet?
- How We Use Crystals To Tell Time
- Hybrid Cars: The Magic Braking
- Infrared Headphones
- Liquid Crystal Communication
- NASA Hits a Hole-In-One
- New York to London in Less Than Two Hours
- Non-Flammable Fuel?
- Pass the Basalt
- Red Dot Replacing Cross Hairs
- Searing Heat, Little Package
- Seeing In The Dark
- Smoke Detectors
- Space Lasers Keep Earth's Air Clean