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31May 2021

Engineering Ingenuity of the Ancient Romans

By |May 31st, 2021|Categories: Tuesday Tidbits|1 Comment

While the Ancient Greeks are often lauded for their contributions to many fields such as poetry, philosophy, and mathematics (to name a few), the incredible engineering feats of the Ancient Romans were instrumental in their infrastructural and organizational efforts, and these ingenuities are employed by engineers even today ...

27May 2021

Collapse of the Willow Island Cooling Tower

By |May 27th, 2021|Categories: Friday Famous Failures|11 Comments

In the 1970s, power companies began building many new coal-fired electrical power plants in the Ohio Valley to feed the growing industry in that region. These power plants were close to coal mines, so the electricity they generated was less expensive than nuclear or hydroelectric ...