Showing posts with the label Engineering

The Building That Steals Your Body Heat

Mar 15, 2019

More than a quarter million commuters pass through the Stockholm Central Station everyday, unaware that their bodies are being tapped for e...

Water Powered Funiculars

Feb 19, 2019

Funiculars are an odd mode of transport, but at the same time, they are one of the most energy-efficient one. The system consist of two coun...

The Tide Barriers of Venice

Nov 14, 2016

Flooding has been a part of Venice since ancient times. Between autumn and spring, the city is affected by bouts of periodic flooding known ...

China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams

Aug 4, 2016

China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...

Paternoster: This Elevator Never Stops

Jul 20, 2016

The paternoster is kind of elevator that consist of a chain of open compartments that move up and down continuously through the vertical sha...

Robot Monk in China’s Buddhist Temple

Apr 25, 2016

A new monk has joined services at a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing. He moves around the temple, chanting Buddhist mantras, and ...

The Defence Line of Amsterdam

Apr 22, 2016

The immense firepower of modern artillery witnessed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 caused great concern among the Dutch, because ...

Plane With Detachable Cabin Makes Surviving Air Crash Possible

Jan 18, 2016

Russian Ukrainian aviation engineer Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich has unveiled a new design for an airplane that might just make surviving...

Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over

Nov 16, 2015

A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...

Guided Busways

Aug 25, 2015

Between Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridgeshire, runs a special bus service over a special route that cons...

Old Semiconductor Factories Turned Into High-Tech Farms

Jun 9, 2015

What is Toshiba’s latest product? A laptop? A TV? How about lettuce? The Japanese electronics manufacturer, that has a lineage dating back ...

Gravity Train as Energy Storage

Mar 30, 2015

Energy grids running on renewable energy sources need storage. The most common way to store energy on a grid scale is through “pumped” hydro...

How The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Survived The 2002 Denali Earthquake

Aug 28, 2014

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is one of the largest pipeline systems in the world. It starts at Prudhoe Bay on the Alaskan North Slope an...

The 728-Ton Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101

Aug 7, 2014

Taipei 101 is an iconic skyscraper located in the city of Taipei, in Taiwan. It rises to 509 meters and consist of exactly 101 floors. At th...

Gee Bee Model R: A Cute But Dangerous Airplane

Jul 15, 2014

The Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster is a classic airplane designed by Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts, and built s...

Thames Flood Barrier

May 12, 2014

The Thames Barrier is located downstream of central London, on the river Thames on the eastern side of the capital at Woolwich. It is the wo...

Towing Icebergs Away From Oil Platforms

May 2, 2014

Every year 20,000 to 40,000 icebergs are born out of glaciers in Greenland and carried away by the currents and into the North Atlantic wher...

Long Distance Conveyor Belts

Apr 23, 2014

Employed in nearly all kinds of industries, conveyor belts provide an excellent mean for moving cargo and materials from one place to anothe...

The Netherland’s Impressive Storm Surge Barriers

Apr 19, 2014

The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level. As much...

Transporter Bridges

Dec 23, 2013

A transporter bridge is a type of movable bridge that carries a gondola across a river. The bridge usually consists of a framework of steel ...