Guide to Engineering Disasters - Causes, Effects, and Lessons Learned
Humankind has achieved great engineering feats, from underwater tunnels to skyscrapers, yet for all its intelligence, it is still far from infallible. …
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Image Gallery - 15 Great Civil Engineering Feats
Ever since people transitioned from hunter gatherers to farming the quest to build bigger and better structures has been going on. From the ancient …
Continue Reading1990s Technology Timeline: Massive Growth During the Decade of the 90s
The 1990s were a time of globalization which science and technology saw notable growth. The decade brought some of the greatest scientific findings …
Continue ReadingCalculating Equilibrium of Forces Through Lami's Theorem
The article explains the conditions required for a set of forces acting over a body to come under equilibrium, during which the body remains …
Continue ReadingWhat is Force Resolution, Polygon Law of Forces, and Triangle Law of Forces?
Force may be defined as an agent which generates or has a tendency to generate a motion and in some occasions “kills” or “tends to kill” a …
Continue ReadingCalculate the Distance Between Two Places on Earth
Finding the distance between your house to your friend’s house in the next block is always easy, but the approach that you use to calculate the …
Continue ReadingFive Flour Mill Explosions & Why They Happen
The explosive power of airborne flour dust can obliterate an entire factory. In fact, in several cases it has. The worst flour mill explosions on …
Continue ReadingWhat Does Avast Mean?
Here you can find out why it’s bad to be a bilge rat, and why you might not want to careen the hull.
Continue ReadingBritish Captain James Cook and His Ship Resolution
Captain James Cook and his ships traveled across the world. He is famous for making the Australian and New Zealand coastlines known to Europeans and …
Continue ReadingHistory of the Titanic - 100th Year Anniversary
The RMS Titanic was a passenger ship built at Harland & Wolff Shipyard Belfast. She set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on …
Continue ReadingWhat was Revolutionary about the Industrial Revolution?
The industrial revolution forever altered the habits and thoughts of humankind. Using knowledge of natural sciences, engineers developed practical …
Continue ReadingDust Storm Science and Lessons Learned from the American Dust Bowl
The dust bowl of the 1930s lasted for eight long years and almost destroyed the agriculture scene in America. The 1931 and 1934 dust storms were the …
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