Posts Tagged ‘submarine’
Steam Powered Fish
“The thinking at the time was that it was almost impossible to run a steam engine underwater because it would use up all the oxygen and convert the inside of the ship into an oven. To overcome this, Monturiol invented a chemical furnace based on a reaction between potassium chlorate, zinc and manganese dioxide – a process that produced enough heat to boil water to run the steam engine. To complement this ingenuity, the reaction gave off oxygen as a by-product.” Low-Tech Magazine
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- Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-DeathLike a lot of people, I'd always assumed, in a sort of cut-rate Hobbesian way, that the center of the brain, if you could ever find it, would inevitably be a pretty dark place, that whatever is good or beautiful about being human is a result of our struggles against everything innate, against physical nature. My brother changed my mind about all that. […]
- Bunch of jackeens, reallySo, you want to know the secret history of Dublin? Well, Come Here To Me, boy, and I'll tell it ya. League of Ireland fanatics and music fans they may be but above all else, former UCD students Jay, D Fallon and hXci are history buffs, and on their blog they uncover much that is obscure and fascinating in this history of their native city, starting with […]
- Wargame reviews on YouTubeMarco Arnaudo reviews wargames on YouTube About:Marco Arnaudo was born in Italy in 1976. He graduated (BA) from the University of Pisa in 2000, and earned his PhD from both the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2004) and Harvard University (2006). He is currently Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Graduate Studies in Italian at the Dept. of Frenc […]
- Photoshop this powder blast [Photoshop]
- Pilots say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing--even if you have to walk through the living room and out the front door of the house you crashed into. With pic [Scary]
- Amazing pictures of New York's abandoned leper colony, North Brother Island [Interesting]