Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativity...With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
How do bulletproof vests work? - Max G. Levy
AdultsConstructionScienceExplore the chemistry behind what makes kevlar so strong, and how this essential synthetic fiber was invented.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativity...What does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Mapping Better Bike Routes
YouthCitiesConstruction...Finding 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)
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...The 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
AdultsConstructionEducation...This 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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?
AdultsConstructionCreativity...Explore 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Let's Engineer A Gingerbread Fort
KidsConstructionFood...Jessi and Squeaks enjoy the winter season by constructing a model of the Fort out of gingerbread.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
AdultsConstructionCreativity...This is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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
AdultsConstructionCreativity...In this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
AdultsConstructionCreativity...I 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?
AdultsConstructionEducation...Modern roped rock climbing, one of the nerdiest sports, relies almost entirely on a single type of knot for safety: the figure eight knot.
Building a Sled | Alaska: The Next Generation
AdultsConstructionHealth...Daniel Apassingok, along with Chase and his family and friends help build a sled to help their every day lives.
How One Design Flaw Almost Toppled A Skyscraper
YouthCitiesConstruction...Dig into the unique engineering of New York City’s Citicorp Center tower, and the design flaw that threatened to topple it.