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Practical Engineering

Practical Engineering

Spoken engineering documentaries, Wendover-adjacent · Niche: documentary Links: Website: http://practical.engineering Instagram: http://instagram.com/PracticalEngineering Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/PracticalEngineering Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PracticalEngineerGrady/

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Episodes

71 episodes

  1. Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly? 21:55
  2. Segmented Bowl Factory - Stop Motion Woodworking 6:16
  3. Hurricane vs. Tiny Houses 28:48
  4. What's Under Your Feet in New York City? 29:16
  5. Groundwater Flow Demonstration Model 6:33
  6. How Water Recycling Works 23:05
  7. Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? 22:24
  8. Artificial Meteors and Re-Entry Engineering 6:32
  9. Sphere Earth Conspiracy - Geodesy 6:25
  10. How not to make a segmented bowl on the lathe (stop motion) 6:42
  11. An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods 30:58
  12. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground 24:12
  13. Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth 11:37
  14. What is a Tuned Mass Damper? 13:21
  15. Building a tile mosaic coffee table 9:33
  16. Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose) 27:15
  17. Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams? 25:59
  18. The Bizarre Bases of Antenna Towers 23:52
  19. International Space Station Orbit Tracker 11:48
  20. Turning Two Segmented Bowls on the Lathe - Maple with Mahogany Accents 11:50
  21. Arduino Weather Station - Internet of Things and the Particle Photon 8:02
  22. Stopping the Unstoppable 21:30
  23. What's that Infrastructure? (Ep. 1 - Transportation Infrastructure) 7:00
  24. Why are Smokestacks So Tall? 27:04
  25. How to Measure Flow with Magnets - (Magnetic Flow Meters) 13:58
  26. Turning a Segmented Bowl on the Lathe - Cherry and Spectraply 12:28
  27. The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure 26:07
  28. Can a satellite do a yo-yo trick? 12:09
  29. Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts) 17:55
  30. Why do Baseball Bats Break? 8:22
  31. The Most Implausible Tunneling Method 21:16
  32. Quick Build: Cubicle Wall Planter 5:16
  33. Turning a Handle for a Carbide Tool on the Lathe 9:09
  34. The Hidden Engineering of Runways 24:24
  35. Arcade-Style Puzzle Box Mini Game 13:11
  36. Do Retention Ponds Actually Work? 23:27
  37. The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick 23:27
  38. Segmented Vases for Mother's Day 7:48
  39. So You Want to Build a Tunnel... 27:26
  40. 1E6 Views and a Few Announcements 6:51
  41. Turning a wooden mortar and pestle on the lathe 11:13
  42. Design Your Own Space Elevator 13:45
  43. How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work 25:54
  44. Arduino Garden Controller - Automatic Watering and Data Logging 12:57
  45. The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction 23:29
  46. California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath 22:51
  47. Boil Water at Room Temperature! - Hydrostatics 13:51
  48. How Earthquake Bearings Work 23:48
  49. Dam and Reservoir Civil Engineer Career Day Display 8:23
  50. The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild 29:43