Brandon Runnels, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, often kicks off his undergraduate mechanics course by showing images from engineering disasters.
A dormant 18th-century mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius has been brought back to life by engineering students at the ...
Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not. Reading time 3 minutes In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient ...