Top Items About Engineering
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Cantilever Bra | Jane Russell, who once had twin peaks in Alaska named in her honor, was famed for her remarkable natural endowment.... | Anonymous | 84 | |
| Anecdotes | Smart Brick | In 2003, professor Chang Liu and his team of structural engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign... | Anonymous | 81 | |
| Trivia | Feature creep & product design | Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often... | root | 69 | |
| Anecdotes | Charles Steinmetz: Mark of Distinction | Charles Steinmetz was once called out of retirement by General Electric to help them locate a problem in an intricate system... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Anecdotes | Elegant Response | A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) once asked Buckminster Fuller whether he took aesthetic... | Anonymous | 33 | |
| Anecdotes | Zero-G Toilet | "It`s a seat and a hole and a fan that sucks in through the hole," NASA robotics whiz Dave Lavery once remarked of... | Anonymous | 32 | |
| Anecdotes | Simply Brilliant | In 214 BC, a powerful Roman force attacked the city of Syracuse, the home of the famed mathematician and inventor Archimedes. | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Anecdotes | Henry Ford: 4719? | One day, a man visiting the Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan happened to encounter Henry Ford himself, who, pointing out... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Trivia | Virgin train crash | On February 23rd [2007, Virgin Group CEO Richard] Branson`s cell phone rang while they were at dinner... a... | root | 27 | |
| Anecdotes | Wily Wren | One day building inspectors declared that the ceiling of Christopher Wren`s Windsor Town Hall was supported by an... | Anonymous | 26 |
