Engineering

Magazine articles on engineering and how things work.

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Wired August 2000 John Pelligrino	Heard the One About the Rocket Car? I don't have much interest in urban legends. I only pay attention to the rocket car story because I'm 99 percent sure I started the whole thing.
Wired August 2000 Paul Kunkel	News Flash Scrap the presses - print and the Web are racing toward the biggest media merger in history.
Science News August 12, 2000	Chip Collection The Smithsonian's "Chip Collection" Web site offers all sorts of nuggets of information for those interested in the history of integrated circuits.
Fast Company September 2000 Jill Rosenfeld	Built in Sub time The scene is a familiar one: A sweat-drenched captain draped over a periscope scans the sea above. The scene is also obsolete: New design principles, new construction practices, and new technology make submarines faster, smarter, and better.
Fast Company August 2000 Ron Lieber	Working, Naturally The news came as a shock to the people of Patagonia: Despite the company's commitment to the environment, its own operations were at odds with nature. What happened next was only natural.
Information Today August 2000	Engineering Information Unveils Engineering Village2 Engineering Information, Inc. (Ei) has announced that it has released Engineering Village2, a service providing single interface search capabilities across multiple engineering databases and access to over 5 million engineering abstracts.
Inc. July 1, 2000 David H. Freedman	This Is Rocket Science Paul Moller may have been working on his flying car for nearly four decades. But he's no crackpot. Meet Skycar
Salon.com June 29, 2000 Mark Wallace	The science of invention Can a theory cooked up by a Soviet labor camp survivor solve today's thorniest engineering problems -- and make the world a better place?
Popular Mechanics May 2000 Cliff Gromer	The New Big Bang Theory The next generation of firearms will have electronic components rather than the traditional ones. Why? In a word---accuracy. In two more words---simplicity and reliability.
Wired May 2000 Charles Platt	Re-Energizer From the space station to power stations, the fast-spinning flywheel is about to revolutionize the way we store energy.
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