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engineering

What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure

December 17, 2009

From TED: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting: With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden [...]

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Dam That Nuisance Hudson River!

July 8, 2009

The Bronx is up and the Battery’s… um, where? From the March 1934 issue of Modern Mechanix, a billion-dollar proposal (in 1934 dollars!) that should have even modern-day developers and [...]

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The Eafieft Ways to Raife Water

May 20, 2009

Today we shew a glimpse into the brainstorms of 18th century water engineers as they struggle with the same-old age-old dilemma of raifing water, courtesy of the New York Public [...]

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California’s Big Squirt: Fertile Farmlands and Tourist Meccas!

May 12, 2009

An out-of-the-box engineering idea from the October, 1951 issue of Modern Mechanix, via blog.modernmechanix.com, CALIFORNIA’S BIG SQUIRT THE parched deserts of Southern California need water to transform their barren soil into fertile [...]

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