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Bill Hammack's audio and video work emphasizes the creative role of engineers in designing and creating our world. He's a regular commentator on radio - based at Illinois Public Radio in Urb...
Listen to Engineerguy videos & audio, a Education podcast by Bill Hammack. Stream 40 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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This series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by u...
This series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by u...
This series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by u...
his series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by us...
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This series on Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Fourier analysis by u...
This introduction to the series Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical computer that performed Four...
Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th...
Bill explains how the rise of home air conditioning had to battle the open air movements in public school: They regarded it as only for fact...
Bill tells the story of how George Eastman invented film. Its use in the Brownie camera revolutionized photography; that it changed the way...
Bill tells us about packaging, a sub-discipline of engineering that is essential to our society. This radio commentary was originally broadc...
Bill discusses the theremin, and how it lead to one the music industry's most fundamental assets, the electronic synthesizer. This was origi...
Bill tells the story of the origins of an engineering marvel found at every amusement park, the Ferris Wheel. This radio piece was first bro...
Bill describes how the household drip coffee maker evolved. This was originally broadcast on August 29, 2000. Visit this link to view comple...
Perhaps no technological failure is better known than that of the Dvorak keyboard. Since the early 1870s nearly every typewriter used a keyb...
How Bell Telephone’s PicturePhone, introduced in 1964, flopped yet nearly catalyzed the internet. Technically, it was an amazing achievement...
In 1976 Sony introduced the Betamax video cassette recorder. It catalyzed the “on demand” of today by allowing users to record television sh...
Introduction to a short series of three videos that takes a "snackable" look at the failure of three famous engineered objects: The Bell Sys...
Bill details how a microwave oven heats food. He describes how the microwave vacuum tube, called a magnetron, generates radio frequencies th...
Bill explains that the hardest step is making the proper type of uranium. Weapons and power plants require uranium that contains a greater a...
Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in detail the use o...
Bill shows how the three key characteristics of laser light - single wavelength, narrow beam, and high intensity - are made. He explains the...
Bill describes how metals like aluminum and titanium are made resistant to corrosion by growing an oxide layer into the metals. These is the...
Bill takes apart a smartphone and explains how its accelerometer works. He also shares the essential idea underlying the MEMS production of...
Bill takes apart a digital camera and explains how its captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD...
Bill uses a laser pointer and a bucket of glycol to show how fiber optic cables works, and how engineers use them to transmit signals across...
Bill uses a pile of cell phones to illustrate the seven design criteria that shape a mobile device. He outlines the seven basic constrain
Bill tears down a hard drive to show how it stores data. He explains how smooth the disk surface must be for the device to work, and he outl...
Bill tears down an LCD monitor to show how it works. He describes how liquid crystals are used, the structure of the glass panes, and the th...
Bill takes apart a smoke detector and shows how it uses a radioactive source to generate a tiny current which is disrupted when smoke flows...
Bill takes apart an incandescent light bulb to how how the filament is made. He shows extreme close-ups of the filament, and he discusses th...
Bill reveals how "queueing theory" - developed by engineers to route phone calls - can be used to find the most efficient arrangement of cas...
The amazing everyday wristwatch: We never think about it, but only because engineers have made it so reliable and durable that we don't need...
Bill shows how a transistor works by examing a replica of the first one ever build: The Bardeen-Brattain point contact transistor.
Bill opens up a vintage "black box" from a Delta airlines jetliner. He describes how the box withstands high temperatures and crash velociti...
To engineer an object means to make choices. Bill illustrates how the choice of having a single heating element made an engineer find a crea...
Bill uses slow motion video to show the ingenious engineering design of the apparently simple tab of a pop can. To create a tab with the lea...
Early calculating devices and computers used mechanical digital to analogue converters. This video describes one based on an arrangement of...
Using slow motion video Bill Hammack, the engineer guy, shows how IBM's revolutionary "golf ball" typewriter works. He describes the marvelo...
In ths public radio piece Bill reveals the mysteries of the Ice Hotel. In January 2002 Bill visited the Ice Hotel with his wife Amy Somrak a...
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