HOST: History of Science and Technology
Updated: 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago
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This playlist is meant to include videos that follow the human understanding of the nature of things and the world through history.
The German army actually bought half a million sets of this armor in WWI! It was used mostly by machine gunners starting in 1916.
posted by halfAcat 9 years 3 months ago • 788 views • 9:24YouTube Description: Learn all about CBTC, the future of the New York City Subway. (via Digg.com and a h/t to @eric3579)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 760 views • 9:26My money is on option two. YouTube: Deep in rural Ukraine sits what was once the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station. Now, it's the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history: and one that still... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months ago • 1,132 views • 2:14The United States Army Field Band meets up with Dr. Paul Cohen to discuss unheard of members of the sax family.
posted by RFlagg 9 years 5 months ago • 830 views • 11:27An interesting investigation of our mobile phone's purpose and engineering by taking a look at the devices created by a culture that places no emphasis on copyright, patents, or trademarks. From the source: ... continue reading
posted by iaui 9 years 5 months ago • 843 views • 2:36Sort of cool demonstration of a how spin affects the high and low pressure differentials on each side of a basketball dropped off a dam. Given how surprised he is by where it ends up---maybe the correct... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 798 views • 3:01Sparks fly as the Man at Arms team uses traditional techniques to forge the Hanzō katana wielded by Black Mamba in Kill Bill.
posted by FlowersInHisHair 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 820 views • 18:41YouTube Description: In the 1880s, LaMarcus Thompson was troubled by America's slide into hedonism and immorality. Out of that concern, we got the rollercoaster. From: MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION:... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 7 months ago • 403 views • 4:20A coherent a respectful response.
posted by brycewi19 1 decade 2 weeks ago • 1,582 views • 8:49Awesome thought experiment!
posted by brycewi19 1 decade 2 weeks ago • 529 views • 10:31curbed.com: A new ad campaign from home appliances giant Philips aimed to show off its "revolutionary" new lighting product, but the video is actually much better at illustrating how drastically our living... continue reading
posted by saber2x 1 decade 2 months ago • 525 views • 1:25Albert Michelson's harmonic analyzer -- a 19th century mechanical calculator that can do Fourier analysis with just gears, springs and levers -- was found at the University of Illinois, and then lovingly... continue reading
posted by mintbbb 1 decade 1 month 1 week ago • 773 views • 5:42What happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together in a vacuum ?
posted by billpayer 1 decade 1 month 3 weeks ago • 2,773 views • 4:42Apples be falling on the regular.
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 5 months ago • 1,956 views • 4:13What is Random: http://videosift.com/video/What-is-Random
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 5 months 1 week ago • 911 views • 10:00It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 5 months 2 weeks ago • 653 views • 5:43