Antikythera Mechanism, Part 1
Part 1 of a Nature Channel video about an ancient Greek device called the Antikythera Mechanism. Scientists have discovered that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads.
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Antikythera Mechanism, Part 2
Part 2 of a Nature Channel video about an ancient Greek device called the Antikythera Mechanism. Scientists have discovered that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads.
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Obama's call for engineers: 14 April 2009
An excerpt of a speech on the economy by President Obama to students at Georgetown University.
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Gauri Nanda
Gauri Nanda on the Big Idea Show
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Destroyed in Seconds
An explosion at a Nevada rocket fuel plant generates a massive, earthquake-like shockwave.
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Engineering a Roller Coaster
The Discovery Channel show Build it Bigger launches headlong into scream engineering --- building, designing and riding some of the greatest roller coasters on the planet.
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Chemical Engineering
Tufts University video about the global importance of chemical engineers.
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Wheelchair Controlled Only by Thoughts
Engineering students at the University of Illinois developed an amazing thought-controlled wheelchair using LabVIEW. In fact, this application is so cool that Michael Callahan won the Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, which is awarded to the most outstanding student inventors. This is an example of how innovators use virtual instrumentation to make significant improvements in everyday life.
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DARwIn by RoMeLa
The Robotics and Mechanisms Lab (RoMeLa) at Virginia Tech University developed DARwIn, a soccer playing humanoid robot, for RoboCup. Watch DARwIn in action.
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Imagine Life without National Instruments Technology
See how NI products improve everyday life in diverse applications from food packaging to automotive testing. NI gives its customers a better solution for measuring and automating the world around them. Learn how you can too.