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Hydraulic transients (also known as water hammer) can seem innocuous in a residential setting, but these spikes in pressure can ...

Bill reveals the long-lost methods used by Medieval engineers to design stone cathedrals. Methods that required no science, ...

Charles Parsons designed a superior steam engine called a turbine, but was ignored until he crashed a celebration of Queen ...

A whistle-stop tour of how computers work, from how silicon is used to make computer chips, perform arithmetic to how programs ...

Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the ...

Dirt is probably the cheapest and simplest construction material out there, but it's not very strong compared to other choices.

Two examples of how engineers solve problems _before_ they have scientific certainty: How they control whether or not fluid flow ...

Follow Miriam and Adam: Miriam: @zentouro Adam: @ClimateAdam Adam's video about my video: ...

Bill uses a bucket of propylene glycol to show how a fiber optic cable works and how engineers send signal across oceans.

Semiconductors are in everything from your cell phone to rockets. But what exactly are they, and what makes them so special?

Bill details how a microwave oven heats food. He describes how the microwave vacuum tube, called a magnetron, generates ...

Bill shares fascinating images and information gleaned from the 1909 to 1911 editions of the Journal The Engineer. It includes ...

Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in ...

Bill reveals the operation and engineering design underlying the famous drinking bird toy. In this video he explores the role ...

This tutorial deals with the very basics of resonance circuits. Starting with an explanation of capacitances, inductors and their ...

Bill describes how metals like aluminum and titanium are made resistant to corrosion by growing an oxide layer into the metals.

and other musings on thermal movement of large civil works. Most people have a certain intuition about thermal expansion, but ...

Bill explains the essential principles of a lead-acid battery. He shows the inside of motorcycle lead-acid battery, removes the lead ...

NIBIB's 60 Seconds of Science explains what tissue engineering is and how it works. Music by longzijun 'Chillvolution.' For more ...

This model makes it easy to understand how shear stresses develop in beams. It was inspired by a photo in the 1976 textbook, ...