World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Assembling electronics in a factory (Hungary, 1966) 0241
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 07/04/20261 gram of activated charcoal has a surface area of over 3,000 m² 0355
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026On Feb 25, 1896, Nikola Tesla patented Alternating Motor. 44817
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The Clearest Image of Venus's Surface, By a Lander that Melted After 2 Hours. On March 1, 1982, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 13 landed on the fiery surface of Venus and sent back the clearest images we’ve ever received from that hellish world. 27915
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Space fact: If you were driving at 75 miles per hour (121 kmh), it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings. 0352
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Button cell battery names are actually codes include the chemistry, shape, diameter and thickness. CR2032 is C lithium, R round, 20mm diamter, 3.2mm thick 3497
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 30/11/202540 years before Google Maps, you called people who looked at maps 2371
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Albert Einstein and Marie Sktodowska Curie reminiscing by a lake in 1929 5969
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025World of Engineering Quiz: Which of these trucks are driving? 980
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Drops on penny experiment: water vs alcohol. The water molecules have much more cohesion than alcohol molecules, because they grab onto one another through hydrogen bonds. 3621
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Everything is a hammer unless it's a screwdriver, then it's chisel. 2486
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a non-traditional form of precision machining that uses thermal energy instead of mechanical force to remove material from a workpiece. 5332
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It didn’t get any cooler than this in the 1960’s SR 71 Blackbird - it still looks futuristic today, sixty years after it came out. 7997
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 27/10/2025The American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, 1935. Number built: 1. 36012
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Why is there pretty much nothing on this side of the Earth? 24444
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Wolseley-Vickers wheel-cum-track car, 1926. 5311
World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025RMS Titanic under construction (circa 1909-1911), in the world's largest shipyard, Harland & Wolff, in Belfast. Of the more than 3,000 people who worked on the world's most famous ship, which set sail on April 2, 1912, 246 were injured, 28 of whom lost arms or legs to objects such as falling steel. 15910
