56 results found for engineering

How magnetic gears work. Magnomatics - a University of Sheffield spin-off

Despite a hard childhood, leaving home at 10 years old, being taken into care at 15 and failing her GCSE's first time round at school Faye Banks went back to school and has since won the young woman engineer of the year award and works in Europe's la....

Bill reveals the importance of matches in the 19th century; he shares how adding phosphorous to them revolutionized life - in both good and bad ways

Looking at stress patterns in components using polarised light, part of the 'Engineered by US' exhibition

People Sense refers to the remarkable capacity of humans to sense and have a commonsense understanding of others' affective-cognitive states and behaviors. The ability to understand and predict people's behavior varies from person to person and even ....

For many problems involving multi-fracturing solids and/or particulate media, the system response is governed by the presence of an additional phase, either gaseous, liquid or both, or by the need to consider other physical phenomena, such as thermal....

Michael Garrett discusses the physical properties of gases and demonstrates how air is liquefied. Liquefied gases are a key resource for survival with an amazing range of applications and there are now few industries which are not in some way depende....

Bill uses power tools to take apart a photocopier. He shows how it works, and shares the story of its invention by Chester Carlson.

Bill cuts a fluorescent light out of his ceiling to show that plasmas and their products are all around us - they're essential in making circuit boards, lights, and even potato chip bags.

Plastics have become ubiquitous structural materials due to the ease with which they can be processed at low cost into complex shapes. Imagine a world in which metals and semiconductors have similar attributes ? that is the world of Plastic Electroni....

Bill takes apart a cheap watch to show how it works. He describes how a tiny quartz tuning fork keeps the time.

Developing an energy efficient concrete to reduce road repairs