PROFESSIONAL HIGHWAY ENGINEER plays Freeways!

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Around The Corner (1937) How Differential Steering Works

Uploaded on Sep 16, 2009 US Auto Industry

"How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding."

The Little-Known Patterns on British Streets

Published on Jan 9, 2017 Tom Scott

"I thought about saying 'secret patterns' or 'mysterious patterns' in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design, about accessibility, and about those bumpy bits that you stand on when you're crossing a British street. // Thanks to Richard Holmes and the team from the RNIB! They're at http://rnib.org.uk, on YouTube at http://youtube.com/rnibuk and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rnib !

The design manual is called Guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1998) [PDF]: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads...

Editor: Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
DoP / camera operator: Tomek (@tomek - http://youtube.com/tomek)"

Small revving single-cylinder engine from paper

Published on Nov 30, 2016 Aliaksei Zholner

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The Bizarre Plan to Drain the Mediterranean: Atlantropa

Published on Nov 1, 2016 Tom Scott

"Herman Sörgel wanted to create the largest civil engineering project the world has ever seen: a colossal dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, lowering the Mediterranean sea. There were, of course, a few problems with this."

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Published on Sep 27, 2016 SpaceX

Weaving the Bridge at Q’eswachaka

Published on Jun 5, 2015 SmithsonianNMAI

"Produced for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018. Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka. This video is narrated by John Ochsendorf, professor of civil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and produced by Noonday Films."

Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel

Published on Sep 28, 2015 Tom Scott

"The Falkirk Wheel sits between Edinburgh and Glasgow, in the southern parts of Scotland, and it's the world's only rotating boat lift. There's some very clever design going on here -- and some physics that goes all the way back to Ancient Greece."

The Weirdest Bridge in Wales: The Newport Transporter Bridge

Published on Aug 3, 2015 Tom Scott

"There are only a few transporter bridges still working in the world. What are they for? Why weren't there more of them? And why don't we build them any more? Those answers and more, from an unsettlingly high position fifty metres above the River Usk."

The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'