Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Remembering the Slide Rule

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This came up as a thread in the “Off-Topic Observatory” of the Cloudy Nights discussion board for amateur astronomers. People have all kinds...
Monday, September 7, 2020

The Pencil: History, Design, and Circumstance

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The book opens and closes with the fact that the pencil’s ubiquity rendered it invisible. On pages 5 and 346 the author tells of being unabl...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Nerdvana: Working with Engineers (and a Scientist)

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Since mid-July, I have been working for an industrial manufacturing firm. We make machines that make things. Of course, everything runs on ...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

The Great Lakes Maritime Academy

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On Friday, May 17, I was granted a tour of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City. It was arra...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Engineers and Jihadi

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Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, who killed a sailor and four Marines at a supply depot in Chattanooga, after opening fire on a recruiting offic...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW

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I reasoned that there must have been telegraph hackers and sought to find them in the written history.  The telegraph came first. ...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Galileo's Two Sciences

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Dover Books specializes in the reproduction of classic works whose copyrights have expired.   This translation by Henry Crew and A...