Industrial Revolution

The Instinctive Engineer 1 The Instinctive Engineer - Part 1: When the Assembly Line Broke the Human Spirit 2 The Instinctive Engineer - Part 2: The Octopus and the Cathedral - Rethinking Where Intelligence Lives 3 The Instinctive Engineer - Part 3: From Products to Processes - The Unseen Rise of the 'Do-It-Myself' Economy 4 The Instinctive Engineer - Part 4: Learning to Swim in a Sea of Data - Why We Must Fail to Move Forward 5 The Instinctive Engineer - Part 5: Building the Self-Supporting Society - Engineering for Human Flourishing ← Series Home 468% Output increase from Ford's first moving assembly line within a year ...

Harvesting the Elements: Pre-Industrial Energy & Extraction 1 Harvesting the Elements – Part 1: The Deep Earth Blueprint: Chinese Gas Extraction and the 1,000m Well 2 Harvesting the Elements – Part 2: Focused Fire: Re-examining the Reality of Archimedes’ Solar Weapon 3 Harvesting the Elements – Part 3: The Automated Current: How Water and Tide Mills Revolutionized Labor 4 Harvesting the Elements – Part 4: The Untapped Revolution: Heron’s Aeolipile and the First Steam Turbine ← Series Home The Spinning Sphere of Alexandria In the first century CE, the brilliant Greek inventor Heron of Alexandria documented a device that seemed to defy its era: the Aeolipile. Often dismissed as a curious novelty or philosophical plaything, this deceptively simple machine was, in its purest form, the world’s first recorded steam turbine. This invention provided a working demonstration of a fundamental law of physics that would not be formally defined until Sir Isaac Newton developed his principles 1,600 years later. ...

Evolution: The Birth and Development of Motion Pictures ← Series Home Key Takeaways Nikolaus Otto's four-stroke engine (1876): Laid the foundation for modern gasoline engines. Karl Benz's Patent-Motorwagen (1886): Became the world's first gasoline-powered automobile. Ford's Model T (1908): Revolutionized manufacturing with assembly line production, making cars affordable for the masses. Lancia Lambda (1922): Pioneered monocoque construction, a design principle still used today. Chrysler Airflow (1934): Introduced aerodynamic styling, though ahead of its time. The story of the automobile is one of humanity’s greatest technological triumphs. From the first sputtering engines to elegant luxury machines, the period between 1832 and 1945 laid every foundation for modern transportation. ...