Engineerguy videos & audio
By Bill Hammack
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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 Urbana he's appeared on public radio's premier business program Marketplace, and on Radio National Australia's Science Show. Many engineering, science, and journalistic groups have recognized his work.
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(4/4) Operation: The details of setting up the Harmonic Analyzer
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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Bonus: Rocker arms: sinusoids in two different directions
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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Bonus: Watch the machine spin around over and over...
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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Page-by-Page Guide to the Free PDF of the Book Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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(3/4) Analysis: Explaining Fourier analysis with a machine
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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(2/4) Synthesis: A machine that uses gears, springs and levers to add sines and cosines
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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How home air conditioning triumphed over the open air movement
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Aug 12, 2014 |
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Kodak
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Aug 05, 2014 |
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How the Donner Party inspired food packaging
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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Theremin: How science fiction got its sound
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Jul 25, 2014 |
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Ferris Wheel: How the Eiffel Tower wasn't good enough
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Jul 25, 2014 |
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Coffee makers: How baseball put them in our homes
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Jul 08, 2014 |
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Why the Dvorak keyboard didn’t take over the world
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Jun 27, 2014 |
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PicturePhone: How Bell Telephone lost a half billion, but nearly created the internet
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Jun 27, 2014 |
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How Sony’s Betamax lost to JVC’s VHS Cassette Recorder
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Jun 27, 2014 |
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Stories of Technological Failure: PicturePhone, Dvorak keyboard & Betamax
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Jun 25, 2014 |
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How a Lead-Acid Battery Works
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Jul 03, 2012 |
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What Keeps Nuclear Weapons from Proliferating
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Jun 19, 2012 |
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How an Atomic Clock Works
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Jun 12, 2012 |
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How a Laser Works
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Jun 05, 2012 |
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Anodizing Aluminium (or The Beauty of Corrosion)
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May 29, 2012 |
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How a Smartphone Knows Up from Down
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May 22, 2012 |
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CCD: The Heart of a Digital Camera
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May 18, 2012 |
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Fiber optic cables
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Jun 21, 2011 |
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Cell phone design
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Hard drive teardown
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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LCD Monitor
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Mar 17, 2011 |
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How smoke detectors work
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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Light Bulb Filament
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Mar 01, 2011 |
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Why the other line is likely to move faster
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Dec 21, 2010 |
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How a quartz watch works
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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How the first transistor worked
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Dec 07, 2010 |
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Black Box
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Nov 30, 2010 |
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Coffee Maker
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Pop Can Stay-on tab: An ingenious engineering design
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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Whiffletree: A mechanical digital-to-analog converter
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Nov 09, 2010 |
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The IBM Selectric & its mechanical digital-to-analogue converter
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Nov 09, 2010 |
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The ice hotel (audio)
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Jan 30, 2010 |