Dress Sizes The Scientific Way
Engineering / Processes
In pre-industrial America, most clothing was crafted at home or by professional tailors or dressmakers from individual measurements taken of each customer. In the early Twentieth Century, the growing continue reading this fact
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Searing Heat, Little Package
Engineering / Breakthroughs
Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100C (2012F), self-contained within a 'laboratory' no bigger than a child's shoe. The micro-hotplates are only a few doze continue reading this fact
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How Can A Bullet-proof Vest Stop A Bullet?
Engineering / Breakthroughs
Here's an experiment: take the small coil springs from a dozen or so retractable pens and roll them together in a heap until they are thoroughly tangled and entwined. Now try to pull them apart from e continue reading this fact
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