At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
In a two bucket system the bottom bucket is where the water is stored for the plant. The top bucket contains the soil and allows the water to wick up through holes that are drilled in the top bucket's bottom. A larger hole allows a 'wicking cup' to sit the bottom of the 'top' bu...
A few years ago, I wrote a short document on methods for rapidly fabricating elements of mechanical systems entitledHow to Build Your Robot Really Really Fast. It was catered towards students in MIT's2.007introductory design and manufacturing class for which I was a lab assistant at the time. ...
In the most common type of mirage, an object appears to be reflected as if there were a pool of water on the ground. This phenomenon is caused by light refraction — the bending of light beams.Lightbends when it passes from one medium into another — from air to water, for example, ...
William Otis received a U.S. patent for the steam shovel -- the first of its kind -- in 1839. Hemera/Thinkstock By the 1800s, inventors were taking advantage ofsteam energyto power all types of mechanical devices. One such brilliant inventor was William Otis, who designed a machine to ...
A gearbox like this would be huge (it would have to handle 4,200 horsepower), complicated and inefficient, and create a possible point of mechanical failure. It would also have to provide power to four sets of wheels, which would add to the complexity. By going with a hybrid setup, the...
Neizvestny, to create his memorial.Footnote 2 Tamm himself visited the workshop of another avant-garde sculptor, Vadim A. Sidur. Tamm was not very much taken by what he saw; for arts, he was perhaps more of a conservative. Yet when he died, his family chose Sidur’s modern composition...
This tutorial is a concise introduction to exposing an application’s API using REST It is programming language agnostic and focuses on the broad steps taken to expose an internal application using a REST API
From Steadi to Sky A Celebrity Camera How Skycam Soars Skycam on the Horizon From Steadi to Sky Steadicam, Skycam’s older sibling © Visionhaus/Corbis Before you walk, you crawl. Before Skycam, there was Steadicam. Both emerged from the brain of camera operator, inventor and entrepr...