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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 1d

Caulk gun

World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 1d

🇯🇵 Japanese students learn the first 9 digits of pi with the phrase "an obstetrician faces towards a foreign country,” which, when translated directly into Japanese, means 3.14159265

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 1d

RMS Titanic under construction (circa 1909-1911), in the world's largest shipyard, Harland & Wolff, in Belfast. Of the more than 3,000 people who worked on the world's most famous ship, which set sail on April 2, 1912, 246 were injured, 28 of whom lost arms or legs to objects such as falling steel.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 2d

Some people don’t fully understand how much life changed for us between 1900 and 2000.

First plane flight and moon landing are only 66 years apart 🤯

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 2d

Cassini captured this breathtaking shot of Dione in front of Saturn 20 years ago today

Credit - NASA/JPL

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 3d

Saturn sure has a lot of rings!

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 4d

Laika was a stray dog who became the first living animal to orbit the Earth aboard the spacecraft Sputnik 2 on Nov 3, 1957. The mission was a one-way trip, and she died from hyperthermia and stress between five and seven hours into the flight, due to a malfunction in the cabin's temp control system.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 4d

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 4d

Have you ever seen knurling on a lathe with a threading tip? This is mesmerising to watch!

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 4d

Krupp K5 heavy railway gun.

This gun had the following characteristics: It weighed 218 tons and was capable of firing shells weighing 243 kg. Its range was 64 kilometers. The gun had a rate of fire of 15 rounds per hour. Only 25 Krupp K5s were produced, and two survived the war.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 5d

A Tu-144 aircraft at Sheremetyevo Airport, (1970), Moscow, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Yu. Chuprykov

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 6d

Universal wrench

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

A ´ton´ can refer to 3 different units of mass.

A metric ton equals 1000kg.

A short ton used in the US equals 2000 lb (907 kg).

A long ton used in the UK equals 2240 lb (1016 kg).

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

Beer math:

One beer - 🍺🍺
A couple of beers - 🍺🍺🍺🍺
A few beers - 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
One last beer - 🍺🍺

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

Gare Montparnasse in Paris, France, made headlines worldwide on October 22, 1895, when the Granville Express, a few minutes late, pulled into the station too fast and crashed through the station wall. A woman was killed by falling masonry; the driver sentenced to two months in prison and a fine.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 8d

Useful tool

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10d

No "K" in Kinder according to google AI

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10d

Now that’s a cut

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10d

Pipe notcher

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 11d

Useful tool

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 11d

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles" - Thomas Edison

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 12d

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 12d

Coin operated television chairs at airports

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 12d

A very interesting place in Romania

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 13d

In 1999, a 15-year-old named Jonathan James hacked into NASA’s computers, accessed source code used for the International Space Station, and forced NASA to shut down parts of its systems for 21 days

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