Mapping Better Bike Routes
YouthCitiesConstructionTechnologyTransportationEnvironmentFinding ways for cities to be more sustainable is what Carter Jonas aims to achieve with the help of GIS technology.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceTechnologyDIYI have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationNatureEnvironmentDIYThe thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
How the Most Expensive Swords in the World Are Made
AdultsConstructionEducationHistoryArtThis is a video about how Japanese samurai swords, aka katanas, are made – from the gathering of the iron sand, to the smelting of the steel, to the forging of the blade.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceExperimentsI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityNatureExperimentsScienceEngineeringI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
AdultsConstructionCreativityHistoryCitiesArchitectureExplore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYExperimentsSurvivalI made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityGamingArtDesignKagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnologyScienceNatural DisastersThis is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYScienceTechnologyI made a volute shaped blower where the housing for the fan is volute shaped, that is to say a widening spiral to test the effectiveness of a one way spinning impeller.
Primitive Technology: Brick and Charcoal Production
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYExperimentsIn this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
AdultsConstructionCreativityNatureTechnologyEngineeringI made a furnace insulated with wood ash to smelt iron in. Furnace insulation stops heat being lost from the walls of a furnace and so increases the heat within the furnace.
The Figure 8 Knot Has Never Failed. Why?
AdultsConstructionEducationPhysicsScienceSportsProblem-SolvingModern roped rock climbing, one of the nerdiest sports, relies almost entirely on a single type of knot for safety: the figure eight knot.
How One Design Flaw Almost Toppled A Skyscraper
YouthCitiesConstructionTechnologyEngineeringArchitectureIndustryDig into the unique engineering of New York City’s Citicorp Center tower, and the design flaw that threatened to topple it.
Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
AdultsConstructionHistoryScienceEngineeringConcrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
AdultsConstructionCreativityScienceTechnologyEngineeringA huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.