Bundle Read the numbers again In each of these the specification is doing the work a punchline usually does.
Apple's Dimensional Drawings Ninety PDFs of every recent product, dimensioned to the hundredth of a millimetre
Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 3D-printed 1:9 drive, published with the version that failed and the numbers that prove it
Finds
- Every US Electrical Outlet Explained Practical Engineering on the 35-plus outlet types hiding behind "two-prong"
- Apple's Dimensional Drawings Ninety PDFs of every recent product, dimensioned to the hundredth of a millimetre
- 12 Crank Mechanisms Visualized Twelve mechanisms drawn on one sheet, each proving something about itself before it moves
- The Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years Ctesibius's float-valve clepsydra, unbeaten until Huygens's pendulum clock in 1656
- Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult How RCA hid a color signal inside black-and-white broadcasts
- Liverpool's First Enclosed Dock The 1715 wall that turned weeks of unloading into a day
- Exactly A history of engineering told in orders of magnitude
- How Ancient Greek Warships Worked A 3D animation that finally makes three tiers of oars make sense
- Supersonic Trebuchet A medieval siege engine producing a very small sonic boom
- V8 Engine-Powered Blender Four horsepower, eight cylinders, one smoothie
- Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 1:9 gearbox, published with the version that didn't work
- Ventorah A real wind-tunnel simulation on any 3D model, in the browser
- Borden Avenue Bridge One of only four U.S. bridges left that opens by sliding sideways
- Mechanical Pencil Meticulous 3D animations of everyday object internals