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11:39The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
19.4M viewsBill Hammack walks through every design decision in the aluminium beverage can, from the domed bottom to the necked top.
3:39(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer
475K viewsIntroduction to Michelson's 1890s harmonic analyzer, a mechanical computer that performs Fourier analysis with gears and springs.
11:54Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained
1.06M viewsUsing medieval cathedrals, Bill Hammack shows that engineering works by rules of thumb and iteration, not just applied science.
21:07Lecture Five: The Chemical History of a Candle - Respiration & the Burning of a Candle (6/6)
69.7K viewsLecture 5 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: respiration and the burning of a candle, linking combustion to breathing.
20:00Lecture Four: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Nature of the Atmosphere (5/6)
84K viewsLecture 4 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: the nature of the atmosphere: oxygen and nitrogen.
11:48Lecture One: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Sources of its Flame (2/6)
243K viewsLecture 1 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: the sources of a candle flame: melting, capillary action and the fuel cycle.
15:43Lecture Three: The Chemical History of a Candle - Products of Combustion (4/6)
91.4K viewsLecture 3 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: the products of combustion, including water.
13:45Lecture Two: The Chemical History of a Candle - Brightness of the Flame (3/6)
120K viewsLecture 2 of Michael Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures, "The Chemical History of a Candle", performed with the original demonstrations: what makes a flame bright: incandescent carbon particles.
9:37Plastic Injection Molding
4.99M viewsHow plastic injection moulding works, including mould design and its constraints.
12:55The masterful design of the two-liter plastic soda bottle
758K viewsThe design of the two-litre plastic soda bottle, from material choice to blow moulding.
5:42(2/4) Synthesis: A machine that uses gears, springs and levers to add sines and cosines
433K viewsPart 2 of the harmonic analyzer series: how a 100-year-old gear-and-spring machine adds sines and cosines to synthesise waveforms.
4:05(3/4) Analysis: Explaining Fourier analysis with a machine
241K viewsPart 3 of the harmonic analyzer series: how the same machine runs in reverse to perform Fourier analysis.
5:36Fiber optic cables: How they work
7.12M viewsHow fibre optic cables carry light by total internal reflection.
5:11How a Microwave Oven Works
5.38M viewsHow a microwave oven heats food: magnetron, waveguide and water molecules.
Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
207K viewsBill Hammack introduces his performance of Faraday's 1848 Christmas lectures on the chemistry of a candle.
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11:40The Microwave Oven Magnetron: What an Engineer Means by “Best”
683K viewsThe cavity magnetron and what engineers mean by 'best' design.
11:25The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science
626K viewsThe steam turbine and the surprising relationship between engineering practice and science.
3:05IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter
1.07M viewsHow the IBM Selectric typewriter turned a key press into the precise rotation and tilt of its type ball.
9:42Nitinol: The Shape Memory Effect and Superelasticity
889K viewsNitinol's shape-memory effect and superelasticity, demonstrated and explained.
11:48(4/4) Operation: The details of setting up the Harmonic Analyzer
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4:17Anodizing (Or the beauty of corrosion)
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4:26Apollo: The Alignment Optical Telescope
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17:29Bonus: Rocker arms: sinusoids in two different directions
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16:58Britain's Giant Airship: R.101
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4:27CCD: The heart of a digital camera (how a charge-coupled device works)
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4:02Cell Phone Design
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3:27Coffee makers: How baseball put them in our homes
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21:07Commentary Lecture Five: The Chemical History of a Candle - Respiration & the Burning of a Candle
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20:00Commentary Lecture Four: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Nature of the Atmosphere
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11:48Commentary Lecture One: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Sources of its Flame
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15:43Commentary Lecture Three: The Chemical History of a Candle - Products of Combustion
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13:45Commentary Lecture Two: The Chemical History of a Candle - Brightness of the Flame
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12:22Controlling Turbulence and Evolution: How Engineers Overcome Uncertainty
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12:06DLP Projector Stereolithography 3D Printer
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3:11Ferris Wheel: How the Eiffel Tower wasn't good enough
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