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Find out how Professor Peter Styring came up with a design for self-lubricating skis, and discover what stringent tests he performed before realizing the finished product.nA chemical engineer, Styring has devoted much of his working life to designing....

Pupils of Wilhelm Raabe School in Hanover....

Harvard student Carina Fish explains her research on soft robotics in the lab of Professor George Whitesides during summer 2010. Morehouse student Adam Johnson lends a helping hand

Brigham Young University student Dustin Gerrard explains his research in materials science during Summer 2010 at Harvard University in the laboratory of David Weitz under the direction of Sujit Datta.

With his hammer Bill cracks up a cell phone to expose how our electronic gadgets rely on the mineral tantalum - mined as Coltan.

Bill invades a cell phone store to show that the design of a mobile isn't arbritary. Engineers uses seven basic principles to create a useful phone.

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Short presentation about digital media world

Bill sings a song - with help from Doris Day - about the geiger counter. He shows that scientist Hans Geiger became an engineer when he designed the counter as a tool to make his life easier.

Bill reads from his book of fairy tales. He tells the story of the engineering of a light bulb, focusing on the materials breakthrough needed to make the filament.

Does exactly what it says on the tin!

Roy Darlington explains the attractions of the remarkably simple Stirling engine