Here, friends and neighbors, is the eighth and final video of Engineer Guy series #4. The element of the week is called 'plumbum' in Latin, abbreviated to 'Pb' on the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday July 5th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science | 2 Comments
The elements of the week are tungsten and thorium, which are alloyed to make the filament in the special type of vacuum tube—called a magnetron—that produces radiation in your microwave...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 26th, 2012 7:41 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 4 Comments
One of the great treats of my chemistry education at UT-Austin was having the original gaseous diffusion process for enriching uranium explained to me by a man who worked on...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 19th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
In this, the fourth installment of Engineer Guy Series #4, Bill, Patrick, and Nick show off the engineering that accounts for three key characteristics of laser light: single wavelengths, narrow...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 5th, 2012 9:00 AM
As much as I love Engineer Guy videos, I am especially partial to Series #4, because it is themed around the chemical elements—each installment features a different element and a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday May 29th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 2 Comments
Here, with great fanfare, is the second installment of Engineer Guy Series #4: theMEMSaccelerometer. With typical flair, Bill and his production team take us from the basic concept of an...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday May 28th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Science | No Comments
Bill Hammack is back! I am pleased beyond measure to present the first video in Engineer Guy Series #4, in which Bill Hammack and his Engineer Guy production team at...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday May 25th, 2012 7:30 AM
Categories: Education, Photography & Video | 4 Comments
In this, the last installment of the third series of Bill Hammack’s wildly popular Engineer Guy videos, Bill exposes the wonders of fiber optics. He starts by demonstrating transmission of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 21st, 2011 2:35 PM
Categories: Education, Photography & Video, Science | No Comments
Bill Hammack's video this week explains the constraints that govern the engineering of cell phones, and how and why the development of key technologies has changed the way cell phones...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 14th, 2011 6:06 AM
Categories: Electronics, Science | 2 Comments
Bill's back! And his subject this week may be the ultimate example of a truly astounding piece of engineering that we all tend to take for granted: The computer hard...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 7th, 2011 1:50 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Education, Electronics | 5 Comments
For a few years now, I’ve had this hare-brained idea to try to separate the layers of polarizing film from a scrap LCD panel and make a polariscope out of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday March 17th, 2011 9:03 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Photography & Video, Science | 3 Comments
Most of our readers will know that one of the most common types of residential smoke detectors actually contains radioactive material—specifically, an isotope of americium—which is used to ionize air...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday March 8th, 2011 9:06 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Science | 4 Comments
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