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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10h

Saturn sure has a lot of rings!

World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 16h

Laika was a stray dog who became the first living animal to orbit the Earth aboard the spacecraft Sputnik 2 on Nov 3, 1957. The mission was a one-way trip, and she died from hyperthermia and stress between five and seven hours into the flight, due to a malfunction in the cabin's temp control system.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 22h

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever seen knurling on a lathe with a threading tip? This is mesmerising to watch!

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 1d

Krupp K5 heavy railway gun.

This gun had the following characteristics: It weighed 218 tons and was capable of firing shells weighing 243 kg. Its range was 64 kilometers. The gun had a rate of fire of 15 rounds per hour. Only 25 Krupp K5s were produced, and two survived the war.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 2d

A Tu-144 aircraft at Sheremetyevo Airport, (1970), Moscow, Russian SFSR. Photograph: Yu. Chuprykov

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 3d

Universal wrench

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 3d

A ´ton´ can refer to 3 different units of mass.

A metric ton equals 1000kg.

A short ton used in the US equals 2000 lb (907 kg).

A long ton used in the UK equals 2240 lb (1016 kg).

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 3d

Beer math:

One beer - 🍺🍺
A couple of beers - 🍺🍺🍺🍺
A few beers - 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
One last beer - 🍺🍺

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 3d

Gare Montparnasse in Paris, France, made headlines worldwide on October 22, 1895, when the Granville Express, a few minutes late, pulled into the station too fast and crashed through the station wall. A woman was killed by falling masonry; the driver sentenced to two months in prison and a fine.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 4d

Useful tool

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 6d

No "K" in Kinder according to google AI

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

Now that’s a cut

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

Pipe notcher

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

Useful tool

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 7d

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles" - Thomas Edison

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 8d

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 8d

Coin operated television chairs at airports

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 9d

A very interesting place in Romania

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10d

In 1999, a 15-year-old named Jonathan James hacked into NASA’s computers, accessed source code used for the International Space Station, and forced NASA to shut down parts of its systems for 21 days

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 11d

This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined!

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 12d

Interesting 🧐

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 12d

Groundbreaking study shows how solar panels age after 30 years of use: 'It's an important message to the photovoltaic industry'. Astudy of six, 30-year-old arrays in Switzerland found them to still be working well, retaining more than 80% of their initial power.

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 13d

Riveting

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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 13d

Who was the third guy?

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